The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 68
Several of the people who were upon it perished in the waters, and among others this unlucky Sindbad.
Who acts: people · What happens: be · To what, where: waters
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 (people), 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 | Several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 people | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 people | det |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Several | obl |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 perished | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 perished | cop |
| 7 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 9 perished | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 perished | nsubj |
| 9 | perished | perish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 people | acl:relcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 waters | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 waters | det |
| 12 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 perished | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Sindbad | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Sindbad | cc |
| 15 | among | among | ADP | _ | 16 others | case |
| 16 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 Sindbad | obl |
| 17 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 Sindbad | nsubj |
| 18 | unlucky | unlucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Sindbad | amod |
| 19 | Sindbad | Sindbad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Several | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Several | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the people | the waters | perish property | tree rules |
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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