The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 74
These words caused great consternation among all the ship's company, and only too soon we were to find out that the captain spoke truly.
Who acts: words, we, captain · What happens: cause, find out, speak · To what, where: great consternation · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (words, we, captain), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 words | det |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 caused | nsubj |
| 3 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 consternation | amod |
| 5 | consternation | consternation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caused | obj |
| 6 | among | among | ADP | _ | 11 company | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 ship | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ship | det |
| 9 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 company | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 ship | case |
| 11 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caused | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 find | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 find | cc |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 soon | advmod |
| 15 | too | too | ADV | _ | 16 soon | advmod |
| 16 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 find | advmod |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 find | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 find | aux |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 find | mark |
| 20 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 caused | conj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 find | compound:prt |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 spoke | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 captain | det |
| 24 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 spoke | nsubj |
| 25 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 find | advcl |
| 26 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 25 spoke | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 caused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | past | this words | great consternation | among all ship's company | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition consternation=Patient | |||
| 2 | find out | past | we | soon property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past | the captain | truly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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