The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 52

I stayed with the merchants several days, and then as they were journeying homewards I gladly accompanied them.

Who acts: I, merchants · What happens: stay, journey, accompany · To what, where: homewards, merchants

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 (I, merchants), 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	2 stayed	nsubj
2	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 merchants	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 merchants	det
5	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stayed	obl
6	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 days	amod
7	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stayed	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 journeying	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 journeying	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 journeying	advmod
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 journeying	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 journeying	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 journeying	aux
14	journeying	journey	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 stayed	advcl
15	homewards	homeward	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 journeying	obj
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 accompanied	nsubj
17	gladly	gladly	ADV	_	18 accompanied	advmod
18	accompanied	accompany	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 journeying	ccomp
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 accompanied	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stayed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	I		day	with the merchants	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with merchant=Location
2	journey	past · progressive	merchants = merchant	homewards	then		tree rules
3	accompany	past	I	merchants = merchant		gladly property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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