The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 63
He belonged to Bagdad, and joined my ship at Balsora, but by mischance he was left behind upon a desert island where we had landed to fill up our water-casks, and it was not until four hours later that he was missed.
Who acts: captain, mischance, we · What happens: belong, join, leave behind, land, fill up, not miss · To what, where: Bagdad, ship, Balsora, captain, desert island, water casks
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 (captain, mischance, we), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 belonged | nsubj |
| 2 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 Bagdad | case |
| 4 | Bagdad | Bagdad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 belonged | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 joined | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 joined | cc |
| 7 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 belonged | conj |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 ship | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 joined | obj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 Balsora | case |
| 11 | Balsora | Balsora | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 joined | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 left | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 left | cc |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 mischance | case |
| 15 | mischance | mischance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 left | obl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 left | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 left | aux:pass |
| 18 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 belonged | parataxis |
| 19 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 18 left | advmod |
| 20 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 23 island | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 island | det |
| 22 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 island | compound |
| 23 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 left | obl |
| 24 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 27 landed | advmod |
| 25 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 landed | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 landed | aux |
| 27 | landed | land | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 island | acl:relcl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 fill | mark |
| 29 | fill | fill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 landed | xcomp |
| 30 | up | up | ADP | _ | 29 fill | compound:prt |
| 31 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 casks | nmod:poss |
| 32 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 casks | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 water | punct |
| 34 | casks | cask | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 fill | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 missed | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 missed | cc |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 missed | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 missed | aux:pass |
| 39 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 47 missed | advmod |
| 40 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 47 missed | mark |
| 41 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 42 hours | nummod |
| 42 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 later | obl:unmarked |
| 43 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 47 missed | advmod |
| 44 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 47 missed | mark |
| 45 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 missed | nsubj |
| 46 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 missed | aux:pass |
| 47 | missed | miss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 left | conj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 belonged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong | past | captain | Bagdad | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | join | past | captain not said here | my ship | Balsora | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Patient | |||
| 3 | leave behind | past · passive | mischance | captain | a desert island | behind property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Theme upon island=Location | ||
| 4 | land | past · perfect | we | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | fill up | to-infinitive | we not said here | our water casks | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cask=Patient | ||||
| 6 | not miss | past · passive | ship | late property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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