The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 88

The captain of my ship, knowing by experience what this meant, cried out to us that the parent birds were coming, and urged us to get on board with all speed.

Who acts: captain, parent birds · What happens: know, mean, cry out, come, urge, get · To what, where: us, board

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 (captain, parent birds), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 captain	det
2	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 meant	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 ship	case
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 ship	nmod:poss
5	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 captain	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 knowing	punct
7	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 meant	advcl
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 experience	case
9	experience	experience	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 knowing	obl
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 meant	obj
11	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 meant	nsubj
12	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cried	punct
14	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 meant	conj
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 cried	compound:prt
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 us	case
17	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 cried	obl
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 coming	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 birds	det
20	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 birds	compound
21	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 coming	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 coming	aux
23	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 cried	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 urged	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 urged	cc
26	urged	urge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 meant	conj
27	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 urged	iobj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 get	mark
29	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 urged	xcomp
30	on	on	ADP	_	31 board	case
31	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 get	obl
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 speed	case
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 speed	det
34	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 get	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 meant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	gerund	the captain of my ship not said here			by experience	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	mean	past	the captain of my ship				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
3	cry out speech: express	past	the captain of my ship not said here	us			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to we=Recipient
4	come	past · progressive	the parent birds				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	urge	past	the captain of my ship not said here	us			vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic
6	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	the captain of my ship not said here		board	with all speed	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on board=Source

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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