The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 51

Here we anchored, and as I stood watching the merchants disembarking their goods and preparing to sell or exchange them, the captain came up to me and said,

Who acts: we, I, merchants, captain · What happens: anchor, stand, watch, disembark, prepare, sell · To what, where: merchants, goods, me · Speech: someone speaks here

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, I, merchants, 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 anchored	advmod
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 anchored	nsubj
3	anchored	anchor	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stood	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 stood	cc
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 stood	mark
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 stood	nsubj
8	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 anchored	conj
9	watching	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 stood	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 merchants	det
11	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 watching	obj
12	disembarking	disembark	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 merchants	acl
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 goods	nmod:poss
14	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	12 disembarking	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 preparing	cc
16	preparing	prepare	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 disembarking	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 sell	mark
18	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 preparing	xcomp
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 exchange	cc
20	exchange	exchange	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 sell	conj
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 exchange	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 came	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 captain	det
24	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 came	nsubj
25	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 anchored	conj
26	up	up	ADV	_	25 came	advmod
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 me	case
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 came	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 said	cc
30	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 anchored	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	anchor	past	we			here	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	stand	past	I				vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	watch	gerund	I not said here	the merchants			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent merchant=Theme
4	disembark	gerund	the merchants not said here	merchants's goods			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme goods=Initial_Location
5	prepare	gerund	the merchants not said here				vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
6	sell not said to happen	to-infinitive	the merchants not said here				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
7	exchange	infinitive	the merchants not said here	merchants = merchant			vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
8	come up	past	the captain		me		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location
9	say speech: assert	past	we not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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