The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 62

One day after my return, as I went down to the quay, I saw a ship which had just cast anchor, and was discharging her cargo, while the merchants to whom it belonged were busily directing the removal of it to their warehouses.

Who acts: I, cargo, merchants, my · What happens: go down, see, cast, discharge, belong, direct · To what, where: ship, cargo, removal

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 (I, cargo, merchants, 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	obl:unmarked
3	after	after	ADP	_	5 return	case
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 return	nmod:poss
5	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 day	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 went	punct
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 went	mark
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 went	nsubj
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	down	down	ADV	_	9 went	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 quay	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 quay	det
13	quay	quay	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 saw	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 saw	nsubj
16	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 went	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 ship	det
18	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 saw	obj
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 cast	nsubj:pass
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 cast	aux
21	just	just	ADV	_	22 cast	advmod
22	cast	cast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 ship	acl:relcl
23	anchor	anchor	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cast	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 discharging	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 discharging	cc
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 discharging	aux
27	discharging	discharge	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 saw	conj
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 cargo	nmod:poss
29	cargo	cargo	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 discharging	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 directing	punct
31	while	while	SCONJ	_	40 directing	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 merchants	det
33	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 directing	nsubj
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 whom	case
35	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 merchants	nmod
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 belonged	nsubj
37	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 whom	acl:relcl
38	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 directing	aux
39	busily	busily	ADV	_	40 directing	advmod
40	directing	direct	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 discharging	conj
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 removal	det
42	removal	removal	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 directing	obj
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 it	case
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 removal	nmod
45	to	to	ADP	_	47 warehouses	case
46	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 warehouses	nmod:poss
47	warehouses	warehouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 directing	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go down	past	I		day	to the quay; down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	see	past	I	a ship			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ship=Stimulus
3	cast	past · perfect · passive		a ship			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: subject=Beneficiary anchor=Product
4	discharge	past · progressive	I not said here	Cassel's cargo			vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cargo=Theme
5	belong	past	cargo				vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
6	direct	past · progressive	the merchants	the removal of cargo		to merchants's warehouses; busily property	vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent removal=Eventuality
7	return		my				nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent
8	remove			cargo			nom removal «act transitive»: of=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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