The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 89
This we did, and the sails were hoisted, but before we had made any way the rocs reached their despoiled nest and hovered about it, uttering frightful cries when they discovered the mangled remains of their young one.
Who acts: we, rocs, merchants · What happens: do, hoist, make, reach, despoil, hover · To what, where: This, sails, way, despoiled nest, frightful cries, mangled remains
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, rocs, merchants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg128:1405): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 did | obj |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hoisted | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 hoisted | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sails | det |
| 7 | sails | sail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hoisted | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 hoisted | aux:pass |
| 9 | hoisted | hoist | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 did | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 reached | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 reached | cc |
| 12 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 15 made | mark |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 made | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 made | aux |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 reached | advcl |
| 16 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 way | det |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | obj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 rocs | det |
| 19 | rocs | roc | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 reached | nsubj |
| 20 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 hoisted | conj |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 nest | nmod:poss |
| 22 | despoiled | despoil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 nest | amod |
| 23 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 reached | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 hovered | cc |
| 25 | hovered | hover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 reached | conj |
| 26 | about | about | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 hovered | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 uttering | punct |
| 29 | uttering | utter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 hovered | advcl |
| 30 | frightful | frightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 cries | amod |
| 31 | cries | cry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 uttering | obj |
| 32 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 34 discovered | advmod |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 discovered | nsubj |
| 34 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 uttering | advcl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 remains | det |
| 36 | mangled | mangle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 remains | amod |
| 37 | remains | remains | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 34 discovered | obj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 one | case |
| 39 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 one | nmod:poss |
| 40 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 one | amod |
| 41 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 remains | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | we | This | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | hoist | past · passive | the sails | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | make | past · perfect | we | any way | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Product | ||||
| 4 | reach | past | the rocs | merchants's despoiled nest | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent nest=Theme | ||||
| 5 | despoil | participle | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | hover | past | the rocs not said here | about roc | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about it=Location | ||||
| 7 | utter speech: other | gerund | the rocs not said here | frightful cries | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cry=Topic | ||||
| 8 | discover | past | merchants = merchant | the mangled remains of merchants's young one | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remains=Topic | ||||
| 9 | mangle | participle | vn carve-21.2-3 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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