The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 10

We went from island to island, often making excellent bargains, until one day we landed at a spot which, though covered with fruit trees and abounding in springs of excellent water, appeared to possess neither houses nor people.

Who acts: We · What happens: go, make, land, cover, abound, appear · To what, where: island, excellent bargains, spot, houses

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 island	case
4	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 island	case
6	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 making	punct
8	often	often	ADV	_	9 making	advmod
9	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 went	advcl
10	excellent	excellent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bargains	amod
11	bargains	bargain	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 making	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 landed	punct
13	until	until	SCONJ	_	17 landed	mark
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 day	nummod
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 landed	obl:unmarked
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 landed	nsubj
17	landed	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 spot	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 spot	det
20	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 landed	obl
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 spot	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 covered	punct
23	though	though	SCONJ	_	24 covered	mark
24	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 landed	conj
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 trees	case
26	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 trees	compound
27	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 covered	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 abounding	cc
29	abounding	abound	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 covered	conj
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 springs	case
31	springs	spring	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 abounding	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 water	case
33	excellent	excellent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 water	amod
34	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 springs	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 appeared	punct
36	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 landed	conj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 possess	mark
38	possess	possess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 appeared	xcomp
39	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	40 houses	cc:preconj
40	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 possess	obj
41	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	42 people	cc
42	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 houses	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	We		island		to island	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from island=Initial_Location to island=Destination
2	make	gerund	We not said here	excellent bargains			often property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bargain=Product
3	land	past	we		a spot	day		vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	cover	participle	we not said here				with fruit trees	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with tree=Theme
5	abound	gerund	we not said here			spring		vn swarm-47.5.1-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme
6	appear	past	we not said here					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
7	possess	to-infinitive	we not said here	houses nor people				vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot house=Theme

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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