The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 50

After sailing about for some time and touching at many ports we came at last to the island of Salahat, where sandal wood grows in great abundance.

Who acts: we, sandal wood · What happens: sail, touch, come, grow · To what, where: many ports, last, great abundance

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 (we, sandal wood), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	2 sailing	mark
2	sailing	sail	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	about	about	ADV	_	2 sailing	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 time	case
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sailing	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 touching	cc
8	touching	touch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 sailing	conj
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 ports	case
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ports	amod
11	ports	port	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 touching	obl
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 ports	acl:relcl
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 last	case
15	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 came	obl
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 island	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 island	det
18	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 last	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 Salahat	case
20	Salahat	Salahat	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 island	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 grows	punct
22	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	25 grows	advmod
23	sandal	sandal	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 wood	compound
24	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 grows	nsubj
25	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 Salahat	acl:relcl
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 abundance	case
27	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 abundance	amod
28	abundance	abundance	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 grows	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sailing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail	gerund				time	about property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	touch	gerund			many ports			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	past	we	many ports not said here	last			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location port=Theme
4	grow	present	sandal wood		great abundance			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in abundance=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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