The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 70

A boat was sent off to me, and in answer to the questions of the sailors as to how I came to be in such a plight, I replied that I had been shipwrecked two days before, but had managed to scramble ashore with the bales which I pointed out to them.

Who acts: I · What happens: send off, come, be, reply, shipwreck, manage · To what, where: boat, me, plight, I, bales, sailors · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boat	det
2	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sent	aux:pass
4	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 sent	compound:prt
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 me	case
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 sent	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 answer	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 answer	cc
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 answer	case
11	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	parataxis
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 questions	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 questions	det
14	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 answer	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 sailors	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sailors	det
17	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 questions	nmod
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 came	mark
19	to	to	ADP	_	18 as	fixed
20	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	22 came	advmod
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 came	nsubj
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sent	advcl
23	to	to	PART	_	28 plight	mark
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 plight	cop
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 plight	case
26	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	28 plight	det:predet
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 plight	det
28	plight	plight	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 came	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 replied	punct
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 replied	nsubj
31	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 plight	parataxis
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 shipwrecked	mark
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 shipwrecked	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 shipwrecked	aux
35	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 shipwrecked	aux:pass
36	shipwrecked	shipwreck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 replied	ccomp
37	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 days	nummod
38	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 before	obl:unmarked
39	before	before	ADV	_	36 shipwrecked	advmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 managed	punct
41	but	but	CCONJ	_	43 managed	cc
42	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 managed	aux
43	managed	manage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 sent	conj
44	to	to	PART	_	45 scramble	mark
45	scramble	scramble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 managed	xcomp
46	ashore	ashore	ADV	_	45 scramble	advmod
47	with	with	ADP	_	49 bales	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 bales	det
49	bales	bale	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 scramble	obl
50	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	52 pointed	obj
51	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	52 pointed	nsubj
52	pointed	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 bales	acl:relcl
53	out	out	ADP	_	52 pointed	compound:prt
54	to	to	ADP	_	55 them	case
55	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 pointed	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	send off	past · passive		a boat	me			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to i=Destination
2	come	past	I					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	to-infinitive				such plight		tree rules
4	reply speech: assert	past	I					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	shipwreck	past · perfect · passive		I			before property	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6	manage	past · perfect						vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	scramble	to-infinitive					with the bales; ashore property	vn mix-22.1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with bale=Co-Patient
8	point out	past	I	the bales	bales = bale			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Theme to they=Recipient
9	question			the sailors				nom question «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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