The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 66

One day he and several of my other passengers landed upon what we supposed to be an island, but which was really an enormous whale floating asleep upon the waves.

Who acts: captain, we, enormous whale · What happens: land, suppose, be, float · To what, where: island, enormous whale, waves

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, we, enormous whale), 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	10 landed	obl:unmarked
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 landed	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 passengers	cc
5	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 passengers	amod
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 passengers	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 passengers	nmod:poss
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 passengers	amod
9	passengers	passenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 he	conj
10	landed	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 what	case
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 landed	obl
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 supposed	nsubj
14	supposed	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 what	acl:relcl
15	to	to	PART	_	18 island	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 island	cop
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 island	det
18	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 supposed	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 whale	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 whale	cc
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 whale	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 whale	cop
23	really	really	ADV	_	26 whale	advmod
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 whale	det
25	enormous	enormous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 whale	amod
26	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 landed	conj
27	floating	float	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 whale	acl
28	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 floating	xcomp
29	upon	upon	ADP	_	31 waves	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 waves	det
31	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 floating	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 landed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	land	past	captain			day		vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	suppose	past	we					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	to-infinitive	we not said here	a island				tree rules
4	is a	past		a enormous whale				tree rules
5	float	gerund	a enormous whale not said here		the waves		asleep property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon wave=Trajectory

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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