The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 55
Whereupon he pointed the bales out to me, and sent for the person whose duty it was to keep a list of the goods that were upon the ship.
Who acts: passenger, duty, goods · What happens: point out, send, be, list · To what, where: bales, me, goods
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 (passenger, duty, goods), 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 | Whereupon | whereupon | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 pointed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pointed | nsubj |
| 3 | pointed | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bales | det |
| 5 | bales | bale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pointed | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 pointed | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 me | case |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 pointed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sent | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sent | cc |
| 11 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 pointed | conj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 person | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 person | det |
| 14 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sent | obl |
| 15 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 16 duty | nmod:poss |
| 16 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 person | nmod |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 keep | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 keep | cop |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 keep | mark |
| 20 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 duty | acl:relcl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 list | det |
| 22 | list | list | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 keep | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 goods | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 goods | det |
| 25 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 22 list | nmod |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 ship | nsubj |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 ship | cop |
| 28 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 30 ship | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 ship | det |
| 30 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 goods | acl:relcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | point out | past | passenger | the bales | me | out, whereupon property | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent bale=Theme to i=Recipient | ||
| 2 | send | participle | passenger not said here | for the person the person the person's duty's duty | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | duty | keep property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the goods | upon the ship | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | list | the goods | nom list «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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