The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 23
After a long and prosperous voyage we landed at Balsora, and I made haste to reach Bagdad, and taking the king's letter I presented myself at the palace gate, followed by the beautiful slave, and various members of my own family, bearing the treasure.
Who acts: we, I, king · What happens: land, haste, reach, take, present, follow · To what, where: various members, Balsora, Bagdad, letter, myself, palace gate
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 (we, I, king), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 6 voyage | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 voyage | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 voyage | amod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 prosperous | cc |
| 5 | prosperous | prosperous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 long | conj |
| 6 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 landed | obl |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 landed | nsubj |
| 8 | landed | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 Balsora | case |
| 10 | Balsora | Balsora | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 landed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 haste | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 haste | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 haste | nsubj |
| 14 | made | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 haste | aux |
| 15 | haste | haste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 landed | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 reach | mark |
| 17 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 haste | advcl |
| 18 | Bagdad | bagdad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 reach | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 taking | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 taking | cc |
| 21 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 landed | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 king | det |
| 23 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 letter | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 king | case |
| 25 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 taking | obj |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 presented | nsubj |
| 27 | presented | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 letter | acl:relcl |
| 28 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 27 presented | obj |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 gate | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 gate | det |
| 31 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 gate | compound |
| 32 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 presented | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 followed | punct |
| 34 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 gate | acl |
| 35 | by | by | ADP | _ | 38 slave | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 slave | det |
| 37 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 slave | amod |
| 38 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 followed | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 members | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 members | cc |
| 41 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 members | amod |
| 42 | members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 landed | obl |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 family | case |
| 44 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 family | nmod:poss |
| 45 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 family | amod |
| 46 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 members | nmod |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 bearing | punct |
| 48 | bearing | bear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 landed | advcl |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 treasure | det |
| 50 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 bearing | obj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 landed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | land | past | we | various members of my own family | Balsora | after a long voyage | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | haste | may | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | reach | to-infinitive | I not said here | Bagdad | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent bagdad=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take | gerund | we not said here | the king's letter | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme | ||||
| 5 | present | past | I | myself | the palace gate | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Theme | |||
| 6 | follow | participle | the palace gate not said here | by the beautiful slave | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by slave=Location | ||||
| 7 | bear | gerund | we not said here | the treasure | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Patient | ||||
| 8 | letter | the king | nom letter «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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