The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 20

Here we anchored, and one of the merchants, who had been very friendly to me on the way, took me ashore with him and showed me a lodging set apart for strange merchants.

Who acts: we, merchants · What happens: anchor, be, take, show, set apart · To what, where: one, me, way, lodging

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, merchants), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 anchored	advmod
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 anchored	nsubj
3	anchored	anchor	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 one	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 one	cc
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 anchored	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 merchants	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 merchants	det
9	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 one	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 friendly	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 friendly	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 friendly	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 friendly	cop
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 friendly	advmod
15	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 merchants	parataxis
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 me	case
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 friendly	obl
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 way	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 way	det
20	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 friendly	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 took	punct
22	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 anchored	conj
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 took	iobj
24	ashore	ashore	ADV	_	22 took	advmod
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 took	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 showed	cc
28	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 took	conj
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 showed	iobj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 lodging	det
31	lodging	lodging	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 showed	obj
32	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 lodging	acl
33	apart	apart	ADV	_	32 set	advmod
34	for	for	ADP	_	36 merchants	case
35	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 merchants	amod
36	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 set	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 anchored	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	anchor	past	we	one of the merchants		here		vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	is	past · perfect	the merchants		me	the way	friendly property	tree rules
3	take	past	we not said here		me		with captain; ashore property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination
4	show	past	we not said here	a lodging	me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient lodging=Topic
5	set apart	participle		a lodging not said here			for strange merchants; apart property	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for merchant=Beneficiary

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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