The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 47

But to my joy and relief I saw a ship sailing by, and by shouting wildly and waving my turban I managed to attract the attention of her crew.

Who acts: I, ship, my, crew · What happens: see, sail, shout, wave, manage, attract · To what, where: ship, turban, attention

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 (I, ship, my, crew), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 saw	cc
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 joy	case
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 joy	nmod:poss
4	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saw	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 relief	cc
6	relief	relief	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 joy	conj
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 saw	nsubj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 ship	det
10	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saw	obj
11	sailing	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 ship	acl
12	by	by	ADP	_	11 sailing	fixed
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 managed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 managed	cc
15	by	by	SCONJ	_	16 shouting	mark
16	shouting	shout	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 managed	advcl
17	wildly	wildly	ADV	_	16 shouting	advmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 waving	cc
19	waving	wave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 shouting	conj
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 turban	nmod:poss
21	turban	turban	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 waving	obj
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 managed	nsubj
23	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 saw	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 attract	mark
25	attract	attract	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 managed	xcomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 attention	det
27	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 attract	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 crew	case
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 crew	nmod:poss
30	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 attention	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	I	a ship	to my joy and relief	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ship=Stimulus
2	sail	gerund	a ship not said here			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	shout speech: express	gerund	I not said here		wildly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	wave	gerund	I not said here	my turban		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turban=Patient
5	manage	past	I			vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	attract	to-infinitive	I not said here	the attention of monster's crew		vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Patient
7	joy		my			nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent
8	attend		monster's crew			nom attention «cognition intransitive»: of=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/15/47/