The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 83
We set sail with the first favourable wind, and after a long voyage upon the open seas we landed upon an unknown island which proved to be uninhabited.
Who acts: We, unknown island · What happens: sail, land, prove, be
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 (We, unknown island), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 sail | nsubj |
| 2 | set | set | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 sail | aux |
| 3 | sail | sail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 wind | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wind | det |
| 6 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 wind | amod |
| 7 | favourable | favourable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wind | amod |
| 8 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sail | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 landed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 landed | cc |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 voyage | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 voyage | det |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 voyage | amod |
| 14 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 landed | obl |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 seas | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 seas | det |
| 17 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 seas | amod |
| 18 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 voyage | nmod |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 landed | nsubj |
| 20 | landed | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sail | conj |
| 21 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 24 island | case |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 island | det |
| 23 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 island | amod |
| 24 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 landed | obl |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 proved | nsubj |
| 26 | proved | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 island | acl:relcl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 uninhabited | mark |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 uninhabited | cop |
| 29 | uninhabited | uninhabited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 proved | xcomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sail | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | We | with the first favourable wind | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | land | past | we | after a long voyage upon the open seas | upon a unknown island | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | prove | past | a unknown island | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | to-infinitive | a unknown island not said here | uninhabited property | tree rules |
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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