The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 19
After we had talked for a while they took me back with them on board their ship, where the captain received me kindly, and we soon set sail, and after several days reached a large and prosperous-looking town where all the houses were built of stone.
Who acts: we, merchant, captain, several days · What happens: talk, take back, receive, set, reach, look · To what, where: me, ship, sail, looking town, houses
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 (we, merchant, captain, several days), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 talked | mark |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 talked | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 talked | aux |
| 4 | talked | talk | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 took | advcl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 while | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 while | det |
| 7 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 talked | obl |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 took | nsubj |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 took | iobj |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 took | advmod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 took | obl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 ship | case |
| 15 | board | board | ADP | _ | 17 ship | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 ship | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 received | punct |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 received | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 captain | det |
| 21 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 received | nsubj |
| 22 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 took | parataxis |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 received | obj |
| 24 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 22 received | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 set | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 set | cc |
| 27 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 set | nsubj |
| 28 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 set | advmod |
| 29 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 took | conj |
| 30 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 set | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 reached | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 reached | cc |
| 33 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 36 reached | mark |
| 34 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 days | amod |
| 35 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 reached | nsubj |
| 36 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 took | conj |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 town | det |
| 38 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 looking | compound |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 prosperous | cc |
| 40 | prosperous | prosperous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 large | conj |
| 41 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 large | punct |
| 42 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 43 town | amod |
| 43 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 reached | obj |
| 44 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 49 built | advmod |
| 45 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 47 houses | det:predet |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 houses | det |
| 47 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 built | nsubj:pass |
| 48 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 built | aux:pass |
| 49 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 town | acl |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 stone | case |
| 51 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 built | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | past · perfect | we | while | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | take back | past | merchant | me | merchant's ship | with gourds = gourd | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | ||
| 3 | receive | past | the captain | me | kindly property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 4 | set | present | we | sail | soon property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient sail=Result | |||
| 5 | reach | past | several days | a looking town | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent town=Theme | ||||
| 6 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 7 | build | past · passive | all houses | of stone | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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