The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 65
"My brother, be not surprised to see us; this is our land, and as we came to get water from the river we noticed your raft floating down it, and one of us swam out and brought you to the shore.
Who acts: brother, this, we, raft, one · What happens: not be, see, be, come, get, notice · To what, where: us, land, water, river, you, shore
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 (brother, this, we, raft), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 surprised | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 brother | nmod:poss |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 surprised | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 brother | punct |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 surprised | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 surprised | advmod |
| 7 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 see | mark |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 surprised | advcl |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 see | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 land | punct |
| 12 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 land | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 land | cop |
| 14 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 land | nmod:poss |
| 15 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 surprised | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 came | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 came | cc |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 came | mark |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 came | nsubj |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 surprised | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 get | mark |
| 22 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 came | xcomp |
| 23 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 get | obj |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 river | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 river | det |
| 26 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 get | obl |
| 27 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 noticed | nsubj |
| 28 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 river | acl:relcl |
| 29 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 raft | nmod:poss |
| 30 | raft | raft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 get | obl |
| 31 | floating | float | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 raft | acl |
| 32 | down | down | ADV | _ | 33 it | advmod |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 floating | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 swam | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 swam | cc |
| 36 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 swam | nsubj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 us | case |
| 38 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 one | nmod |
| 39 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 came | parataxis |
| 40 | out | out | ADV | _ | 39 swam | advmod |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 brought | cc |
| 42 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 swam | conj |
| 43 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 42 brought | obj |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 46 shore | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 shore | det |
| 46 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 brought | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 surprised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | infinitive | My brother | surprised property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | to-infinitive | My brother not said here | us | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer we=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | this | our land | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come in a quote | past | we | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | get in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | water | the river | your raft obl | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent water=Theme from river=Source | ||
| 6 | notice in a quote | past | we | the river not said here | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer river=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | float in a quote | gerund | your raft not said here | river | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | swim out in a quote | past | one of us | out property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 9 | bring in a quote | past | one of us not said here | you | the shore | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to shore=Destination |
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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