The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 23
All agreed with me, and we spent the day in building rafts, each capable of carrying three persons.
Who acts: All · What happens: agree, spend, carry · To what, where: building rafts, three persons
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (All), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 spent | nsubj |
| 2 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 All | acl |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 me | case |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 agreed | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 spent | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 spent | cc |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 spent | nsubj |
| 8 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 day | det |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spent | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 rafts | case |
| 12 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rafts | compound |
| 13 | rafts | raft | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 spent | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 capable | punct |
| 15 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 capable | det |
| 16 | capable | capable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 spent | parataxis |
| 17 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 18 carrying | mark |
| 18 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 capable | advcl |
| 19 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 persons | nummod |
| 20 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 carrying | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 spent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | participle | with me | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with i=Co-Agent | |||||
| 2 | spend | past | All | building rafts | day | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | carry | gerund | All not said here | three persons | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=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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