The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 54
Thence we sailed to the isle of Rohat where the camphor trees grow to such a size that a hundred men could shelter under one of them with ease.
Who acts: we, camphor trees, hundred men · What happens: sail, grow, shelter · To what, where: isle, size
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, camphor trees, hundred men), 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 | Thence | thence | ADV | _ | 3 sailed | advmod |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 sailed | nsubj |
| 3 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 isle | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 isle | det |
| 6 | isle | isle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sailed | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Rohat | case |
| 8 | Rohat | Rohat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 isle | nmod |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 grow | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 trees | det |
| 11 | camphor | camphor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 trees | compound |
| 12 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 grow | nsubj |
| 13 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 isle | acl:relcl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 size | case |
| 15 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 size | det:predet |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 size | det |
| 17 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 grow | obl |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 shelter | obj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 men | det |
| 20 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 men | nummod |
| 21 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 shelter | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 shelter | aux |
| 23 | shelter | shelter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 size | acl:relcl |
| 24 | under | under | ADP | _ | 25 one | case |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 shelter | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 them | case |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 one | nmod |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 ease | case |
| 29 | ease | ease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 one | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | past | we | the isle of Rohat | thence property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to isle=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | grow | present | the camphor trees | to such size | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | shelter | could | a hundred men | such size | under one of trees with ease | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent that=Patient under one=Location |
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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