The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 17

I accepted the charge respectfully, and soon embarked upon the vessel which the king himself had chosen for me.

Who acts: I · What happens: accept, embark, choose · To what, where: charge, king

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	2 accepted	nsubj
2	accepted	accept	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 charge	det
4	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 accepted	obj
5	respectfully	respectfully	ADV	_	2 accepted	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 embarked	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 embarked	cc
8	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 embarked	advmod
9	embarked	embark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 accepted	conj
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 vessel	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 vessel	det
12	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 embarked	obl
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 chosen	obj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 king	det
15	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 chosen	nsubj:pass
16	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 chosen	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 chosen	aux
18	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 vessel	acl:relcl
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 me	case
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 chosen	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 accepted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	accept	past	I	the charge	respectfully property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Theme
2	embark	participle	I not said here		upon the vessel; soon property	tree rules
3	choose	past · perfect · passive		the king	for me	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary which=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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