The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 45
Our sails were furled, and the captain gave permission to all who wished to land for a while and amuse themselves.
Who acts: captain · What happens: furl, give, wish, land, amuse · To what, where: sails, permission, all
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 (captain), 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 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 sails | nmod:poss |
| 2 | sails | sail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 furled | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 furled | aux:pass |
| 4 | furled | furl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 gave | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 gave | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 captain | det |
| 8 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | nsubj |
| 9 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 furled | conj |
| 10 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 all | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 gave | obl |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 wished | nsubj |
| 14 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 all | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 land | mark |
| 16 | land | land | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 wished | xcomp |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 while | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 while | det |
| 19 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 land | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 amuse | cc |
| 21 | amuse | amuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 land | conj |
| 22 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 amuse | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 furled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | furl | past · passive | Our sails | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | give | past | the captain | permission | all | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent permission=Theme to all=Recipient | |||
| 3 | wish | past | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | land not said to happen | to-infinitive | while | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | amuse | present | sails = sail | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus themselves=Experiencer |
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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