The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 72

Once on board, I soon saw that the captain was too much occupied with the difficulties of navigation to pay much heed to me, though he generously made me welcome, and would not even accept the jewels with which I offered to pay my passage.

Who acts: I, captain, road, my · What happens: see, be, pay, make, not accept, offer · To what, where: board, much heed, me, jewels, passage

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, captain, road, my), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 saw	advmod
2	on	on	ADP	_	3 board	case
3	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saw	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 board	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 saw	nsubj
6	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 saw	advmod
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 occupied	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 captain	det
10	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 occupied	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 occupied	cop
12	too	too	ADV	_	13 much	advmod
13	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 occupied	amod
14	occupied	occupied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 saw	advcl
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 difficulties	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 difficulties	det
17	difficulties	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 occupied	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 navigation	case
19	navigation	navigation	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 difficulties	nmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 pay	mark
21	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 occupied	advcl
22	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 heed	amod
23	heed	heed	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pay	obj
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 me	case
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 pay	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 made	punct
27	though	though	SCONJ	_	30 made	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 made	nsubj
29	generously	generously	ADV	_	30 made	advmod
30	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 saw	conj
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 made	obj
32	welcome	welcome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 made	xcomp
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 accept	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 accept	cc
35	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 accept	aux
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 accept	advmod
37	even	even	ADV	_	38 accept	advmod
38	accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 saw	conj
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 jewels	det
40	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 accept	obj
41	with	with	ADP	_	42 which	case
42	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 offered	obl
43	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 offered	nsubj
44	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 jewels	acl:relcl
45	to	to	PART	_	46 pay	mark
46	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 offered	xcomp
47	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 passage	nmod:poss
48	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 pay	obj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	I			board	once, soon property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	the captain				with the difficulties of navigation; occupied property	tree rules
3	pay	to-infinitive	the captain not said here	much heed	me			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Asset
4	make	past	road	me			generously, welcome property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Product
5	not accept	would	I not said here	the jewels				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jewel=Theme
6	offer	past	I				with the jewels	tree rules
7	pay not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	my passage				vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passage=Asset
8	pass		my					nom passage «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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