The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 42
We set sail and took our course towards the East Indies by the Persian Gulf, having the coast of Persia upon our left hand and upon our right the shores of Arabia Felix.
Who acts: We · What happens: sail, take, have · To what, where: course, coast
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 (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 sail | nsubj |
| 2 | set | set | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 sail | aux |
| 3 | sail | sail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 took | cc |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sail | conj |
| 6 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 course | nmod:poss |
| 7 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obj |
| 8 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 11 Indies | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Indies | det |
| 10 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Indies | compound |
| 11 | Indies | Indy | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 took | obl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 Gulf | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Gulf | det |
| 14 | Persian | Persian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Gulf | compound |
| 15 | Gulf | Gulf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 having | punct |
| 17 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 sail | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 coast | det |
| 19 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 having | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Persia | case |
| 21 | Persia | Persia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 coast | nmod |
| 22 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 25 hand | case |
| 23 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 hand | nmod:poss |
| 24 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 hand | amod |
| 25 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 having | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 right | cc |
| 27 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 29 right | case |
| 28 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 right | nmod:poss |
| 29 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hand | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 shores | det |
| 31 | shores | shore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 right | nmod |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 Felix | case |
| 33 | Arabia | Arabia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Felix | compound |
| 34 | Felix | Felix | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 shores | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sail | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | We | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | take | past | We not said here | our course | towards the East Indies; by the Persian Gulf | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent course=Theme | |||
| 3 | have | gerund | We not said here | the coast of Persia | upon our left hand and our right the shores of Arabia Felix | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coast=Patient |
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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