The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 65
"There was on board my ship," he replied, "a merchant of Bagdad named Sindbad.
Who acts: captain, merchant · What happens: be, name · 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 (captain, merchant), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 replied | cop |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 ship | case |
| 5 | board | board | ADP | _ | 7 ship | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 ship | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 replied | nsubj |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 named | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 named | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 merchant | det |
| 15 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 named | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Bagdad | case |
| 17 | Bagdad | Bagdad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 merchant | nmod |
| 18 | named | name | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 replied | conj |
| 19 | Sindbad | Sindbad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 named | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be speech: assert | past | captain | reply property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | name in a quote | past | a merchant of Bagdad | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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