The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 81
Therefore I set out once more, but this time in a ship of my own, which I built and fitted out at the nearest seaport.
Who acts: I · What happens: set out, build, fit out · To what, where: nearest seaport
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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 3 set | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 set | nsubj |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 set | compound:prt |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 more | advmod |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 set | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 built | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 built | cc |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 time | det |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 built | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 ship | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 ship | det |
| 13 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 time | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 own | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 own | nmod:poss |
| 16 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ship | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 built | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 built | obj |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 built | nsubj |
| 20 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 fitted | cc |
| 22 | fitted | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | conj |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 fitted | compound:prt |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 seaport | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 seaport | det |
| 26 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 27 seaport | amod |
| 27 | seaport | seaport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fitted | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | past | I | therefore property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | build | past | I | time | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Product | ||||
| 3 | fit out | past | I not said here | the nearest seaport | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent at seaport=Trajectory |
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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