The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 64
I then recognised the captain of the vessel, but as I was certain that he believed me to be dead, I went up to him and asked who owned the packages that I was looking at.
Who acts: I, captain · What happens: recognise, be, believe, go up, ask, own · To what, where: captain, me, packages · 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, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 recognised | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 recognised | advmod |
| 3 | recognised | recognise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 captain | det |
| 5 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 recognised | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 vessel | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 vessel | det |
| 8 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 captain | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 went | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 went | cc |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 certain | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 certain | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 certain | cop |
| 14 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 went | advcl |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 believed | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 believed | nsubj |
| 17 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 certain | ccomp |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 believed | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 dead | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 dead | cop |
| 21 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 believed | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 certain | punct |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 went | nsubj |
| 24 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 recognised | conj |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 went | compound:prt |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 went | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 asked | cc |
| 29 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 went | conj |
| 30 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 owned | nsubj |
| 31 | owned | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 asked | ccomp |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 packages | det |
| 33 | packages | package | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 owned | obj |
| 34 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 looking | obl |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 looking | nsubj |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 looking | aux |
| 37 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 packages | acl |
| 38 | at | at | ADP | _ | 37 looking | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 recognised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recognise | past | I | the captain of the vessel | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer captain=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is | past | I | certain property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | believe | past | captain | me | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is | to-infinitive | captain not said here | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | go up | past | I | captain | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 6 | ask speech: ask | past | I not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | own | past | the packages | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot package=Theme | |||||
| 8 | look | past · progressive | I | the packages | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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