The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 36

Instead of going by the Persian Gulf, I travelled a considerable way overland, and finally embarked from a distant Indian port with a captain who meant to make a long voyage.

Who acts: I, captain · What happens: go, travel, embark, mean, make · To what, where: considerable way, distant Indian port, long voyage

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 (I, captain), 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	Instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	3 going	mark
2	of	of	ADP	_	1 Instead	fixed
3	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 travelled	advcl
4	by	by	ADP	_	7 Gulf	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Gulf	det
6	Persian	Persian	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Gulf	compound
7	Gulf	Gulf	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 going	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 going	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 travelled	nsubj
10	travelled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 way	det
12	considerable	considerable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 way	amod
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 travelled	obj
14	overland	overland	ADV	_	13 way	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 embarked	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 embarked	cc
17	finally	finally	ADV	_	18 embarked	advmod
18	embarked	embark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 travelled	conj
19	from	from	ADP	_	23 port	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 port	det
21	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 port	amod
22	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 port	amod
23	port	port	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 embarked	obl
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 captain	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 captain	det
26	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 port	nmod
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 meant	nsubj
28	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 captain	acl:relcl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 make	mark
30	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 meant	xcomp
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 voyage	det
32	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 voyage	amod
33	voyage	voyage	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 make	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 travelled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	gerund	I not said here			by the Persian Gulf	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by gulf=Location
2	travel	past	I	a considerable way			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory
3	embark	participle	I not said here		a distant Indian port with a captain	finally property	tree rules
4	mean	past	a captain				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	make not said to happen	to-infinitive	a captain not said here	a long voyage			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset voyage=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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