The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 56

I then made up many packages of rubies, emeralds, rock crystal, ambergris, and precious stuffs, and bound them upon my raft, being careful to preserve the balance, and then I seated myself upon it, having two small oars that I had fashioned laid ready to my hand, and loosed the cord which held it to the bank.

Who acts: I, cord · What happens: make up, bound, be, preserve, seat, have · To what, where: many packages, packages, balance, myself, two small oars, cord

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, cord), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 made	advmod
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 made	compound:prt
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 packages	amod
6	packages	package	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 rubies	case
8	rubies	ruby	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 packages	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 emeralds	punct
10	emeralds	emerald	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 rubies	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 crystal	punct
12	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 crystal	compound
13	crystal	crystal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ambergris	punct
15	ambergris	ambergris	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 crystal	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 stuffs	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 stuffs	cc
18	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 stuffs	amod
19	stuffs	stuff	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 bound	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 bound	cc
22	bound	bound	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 made	parataxis
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 bound	obj
24	upon	upon	ADP	_	26 raft	case
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 raft	nmod:poss
26	raft	raft	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bound	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 careful	punct
28	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 careful	cop
29	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 bound	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 preserve	mark
31	preserve	preserve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 careful	xcomp
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 balance	det
33	balance	balance	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 preserve	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 seated	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 seated	cc
36	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 seated	advmod
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 seated	nsubj
38	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	parataxis
39	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	38 seated	obj
40	upon	upon	ADP	_	41 it	case
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 seated	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 having	punct
43	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 seated	advcl
44	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	46 oars	nummod
45	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 oars	amod
46	oars	oar	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 having	obj
47	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	49 had	obj
48	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	49 had	nsubj
49	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 oars	acl:relcl
50	fashioned	fashioned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 had	obj
51	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	50 fashioned	acl
52	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 laid	xcomp
53	to	to	ADP	_	55 hand	case
54	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 hand	nmod:poss
55	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 ready	obl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 loosed	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 loosed	cc
58	loosed	loose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	conj
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 cord	det
60	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 loosed	obj
61	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	62 held	nsubj
62	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	60 cord	acl:relcl
63	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 held	obj
64	to	to	ADP	_	66 bank	case
65	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 bank	det
66	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 held	obl
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	make up	past	I	many packages of rubies and emeralds	then	rock crystal and ambergris obl; precious stuffs obl	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme package=Pivot
2	bound	infinitive		packages = package		upon my raft	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location they=Theme
3	is	gerund				careful property	tree rules
4	preserve	to-infinitive		the balance			vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent balance=Beneficiary
5	seat	past	I	myself	then	upon balance	vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location myself=Value
6	have	gerund	I not said here	two small oars			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oar=Patient
7	have	past	I	two small oars			tree rules
8	lay	participle				ready property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
9	loose	past	I not said here	the cord			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cord=Patient
10	hold	past	the cord	balance		to the bank	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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