The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 63
Drawing nearer I presently noticed that my own name was marked upon some of the packages, and after having carefully examined them, I felt sure that they were indeed those which I had put on board our ship at Balsora.
Who acts: I, some, packages, my · What happens: draw, notice, mark, have, examine, feel · To what, where: own name, packages, those, ship · Speech: someone speaks here
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, some, packages, 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 | Drawing | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 noticed | csubj |
| 2 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Drawing | xcomp |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 noticed | nsubj |
| 4 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 5 noticed | advmod |
| 5 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 marked | mark |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 name | nmod:poss |
| 8 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 name | amod |
| 9 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 marked | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 marked | aux:pass |
| 11 | marked | mark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 noticed | ccomp |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 some | case |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 marked | obl:agent |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 packages | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 packages | det |
| 16 | packages | package | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 some | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 examined | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 examined | cc |
| 19 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 20 having | mark |
| 20 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 examined | advcl |
| 21 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 20 having | advmod |
| 22 | examined | examine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 noticed | conj |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 examined | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 felt | punct |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 felt | nsubj |
| 26 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 noticed | parataxis |
| 27 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 felt | xcomp |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 those | mark |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 those | nsubj |
| 30 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 those | cop |
| 31 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 32 those | advmod |
| 32 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 26 felt | conj |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 put | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 put | nsubj |
| 35 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 put | aux |
| 36 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 those | acl:relcl |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 40 ship | case |
| 38 | board | board | ADP | _ | 40 ship | case |
| 39 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 ship | nmod:poss |
| 40 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 put | obl |
| 41 | at | at | ADP | _ | 42 Balsora | case |
| 42 | Balsora | Balsora | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 ship | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | gerund | near property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | notice | past | I | presently property | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | mark | past · passive | some | my own name | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Destination | ||||
| 4 | have | gerund | carefully property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | examine | past | I not said here | packages = package | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 6 | feel | past | I | sure property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | is a | past | packages = package | those | indeed property | tree rules | |||
| 8 | put | past · perfect · passive | our ship at Balsora | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on ship=Destination | |||||
| 9 | name | my | nom name «communication 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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