The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 73

I took them gratefully, and as we went from one island to another I laid in stores of cloves, cinnamon, and other spices.

Who acts: I, we · What happens: take, go, lay · To what, where: goods, other spices, one island, stores

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, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	obj
4	gratefully	gratefully	ADV	_	2 took	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 went	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 went	cc
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 went	mark
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 went	nsubj
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 island	case
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 island	nummod
12	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	obl
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 another	case
14	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	9 went	obl
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 laid	nsubj
16	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 another	acl:relcl
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 stores	case
18	stores	store	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 laid	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 cloves	case
20	cloves	clove	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 stores	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 cinnamon	punct
22	cinnamon	cinnamon	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cloves	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 spices	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 spices	cc
25	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 spices	amod
26	spices	spice	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 went	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	I	goods		gratefully property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	go	past	we	other spices	one island	to another	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from island=Initial_Location to another=Destination
3	lay	past	I		stores of cloves and cinnamon		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in store=Destination

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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