The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 18

This island is well known as the scene of his evil deeds, and no merchant or sailor who lands upon it cares to stray far away from his comrades."

Who acts: merchant · What happens: know, land, care, stray · To what, where: island

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 island	det
2	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 known	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 known	aux:pass
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 known	advmod
5	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 scene	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 scene	det
8	scene	scene	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 known	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 deeds	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 deeds	nmod:poss
11	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 deeds	amod
12	deeds	deed	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 scene	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 cares	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 cares	cc
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 merchant	det
16	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cares	nsubj
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 sailor	cc
18	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 merchant	conj
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 lands	nsubj
20	lands	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 merchant	acl:relcl
21	upon	upon	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 lands	obl
23	cares	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 known	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 stray	mark
25	stray	stray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 cares	xcomp
26	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 away	advmod
27	away	away	ADV	_	25 stray	advmod
28	from	from	ADP	_	30 comrades	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 comrades	nmod:poss
30	comrades	comrade	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 away	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 cares	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 cares	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	present · passive		this island	as the scene of man's evil deeds; well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as scene=Attribute
2	land	present	no merchant or sailor		upon island	vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	care	present	no merchant or sailor			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	stray	to-infinitive	no merchant or sailor not said here		away property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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