The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 68
These I made up into bales, and stored them into a safe place upon the beach, and then waited hopefully for the passing of a ship.
Who acts: These · What happens: make up, store, wait, pass · To what, where: bales, safe place, ship
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (These), 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 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 made | nsubj |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 made | compound:prt |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 bales | case |
| 6 | bales | bale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 made | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stored | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 stored | cc |
| 9 | stored | store | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 stored | obj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 place | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 place | det |
| 13 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 place | amod |
| 14 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stored | obl |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 beach | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 beach | det |
| 17 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 place | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 waited | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 waited | cc |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 waited | advmod |
| 21 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 22 | hopefully | hopefully | ADV | _ | 21 waited | advmod |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 passing | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 passing | det |
| 25 | passing | passing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 waited | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 ship | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 ship | det |
| 28 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 passing | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up | past | These | bales | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | store | past | These not said here | bales = bale | a safe place upon the beach | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 3 | wait | past | These not said here | then | for the passing of a ship; hopefully property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | pass | a ship | nom passing «act 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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