The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 50
The sailors ran the ship into a creek, where ten slaves landed, carrying spades and pickaxes.
Who acts: sailors, ten slaves · What happens: run, land, carry · To what, where: ship, creek, spades
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sailors, ten slaves), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sailors | det |
| 2 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ship | det |
| 5 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 creek | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 creek | det |
| 8 | creek | creek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 landed | punct |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 landed | advmod |
| 11 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 slaves | nummod |
| 12 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 landed | nsubj |
| 13 | landed | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 carrying | punct |
| 15 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 landed | advcl |
| 16 | spades | spade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 carrying | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 pickaxes | cc |
| 18 | pickaxes | pickax | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 spades | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the sailors | the ship | a creek | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent ship=Theme into creek=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | land | past | ten slaves | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | carry | gerund | ten slaves not said here | spades and pickaxes | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spade=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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