The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 73
Our voyage was prosperous, and after visiting many lands, and collecting in each place great store of goodly merchandise, I found myself at last in Bagdad once more with unheard of riches of every description.
Who acts: voyage, I, Our · What happens: be, visit, collect, find, voyage · To what, where: many lands, great store, place, myself
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 (voyage, I, Our), 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 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 voyage | nmod:poss |
| 2 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 prosperous | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 prosperous | cop |
| 4 | prosperous | prosperous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 visiting | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 visiting | cc |
| 7 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 8 visiting | mark |
| 8 | visiting | visit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 prosperous | parataxis |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lands | amod |
| 10 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 visiting | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 collecting | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 collecting | cc |
| 13 | collecting | collect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 visiting | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 place | case |
| 15 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 place | det |
| 16 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 collecting | obl |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 store | amod |
| 18 | store | store | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 collecting | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 merchandise | case |
| 20 | goodly | goodly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 merchandise | amod |
| 21 | merchandise | merchandise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 store | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 found | punct |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 found | nsubj |
| 24 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 prosperous | parataxis |
| 25 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 found | obj |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 last | case |
| 27 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 found | xcomp |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 Bagdad | case |
| 29 | Bagdad | Bagdad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 last | obl |
| 30 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 31 more | advmod |
| 31 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 33 unheard | advmod |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 unheard | case |
| 33 | unheard | unheard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 found | xcomp |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 riches | case |
| 35 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 unheard | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 description | case |
| 37 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 description | det |
| 38 | description | description | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 riches | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 prosperous | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Our voyage | prosperous property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | visit | gerund | many lands | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Co-Agent | |||||
| 3 | collect | gerund | great store of goodly merchandise | each place | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent store=Theme | ||||
| 4 | find | past | I | myself | last, unheard property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Topic | |||
| 5 | voyage | Our | nom voyage «act transitive»: 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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