The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 36

"Yes, my noble friends," he continued, addressing the company, "I assure you that my adventures have been strange enough to deter even the most avaricious men from seeking wealth by traversing the seas.

Who acts: noble friends, Sindbad, adventures, my · What happens: continue, address, assure, be, deter, seek · To what, where: company, you, avaricious men, wealth, seas

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noble friends, Sindbad, adventures, my), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 friends	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 friends	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 friends	nmod:poss
5	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 friends	amod
6	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 continued	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 friends	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 continued	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 continued	nsubj
10	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 addressing	punct
12	addressing	address	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 continued	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 company	det
14	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 addressing	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 assure	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 assure	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 assure	nsubj
18	assure	assure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 continued	conj
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 assure	iobj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 strange	mark
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 adventures	nmod:poss
22	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 strange	nsubj
23	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 strange	aux
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 strange	cop
25	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 assure	advcl
26	enough	enough	ADV	_	25 strange	advmod
27	to	to	PART	_	28 deter	mark
28	deter	deter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 strange	xcomp
29	even	even	ADV	_	33 men	advmod
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 men	det
31	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	32 avaricious	advmod
32	avaricious	avaricious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 men	amod
33	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 deter	obj
34	from	from	SCONJ	_	35 seeking	mark
35	seeking	seek	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 deter	advcl
36	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 seeking	obj
37	by	by	SCONJ	_	38 traversing	mark
38	traversing	traverse	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 seeking	advcl
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 seas	det
40	seas	sea	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 traversing	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	continue	past	my noble friends				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	address	gerund	my noble friends not said here	the company			vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=Destination
3	assure in a quote	present	Sindbad		you		vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
4	is in a quote	present · perfect	my adventures			enough, strange property	tree rules
5	deter in a quote	to-infinitive	my adventures not said here	the avaricious men			vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer man=Eventuality
6	seek in a quote	gerund	my adventures not said here	wealth			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wealth=Theme
7	traverse in a quote	gerund	my adventures not said here	the seas			vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sea=Co-Theme
8	adventure in a quote		my				nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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