The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 40
After my sixth voyage I was quite determined that I would go to sea no more.
Who acts: I, my · What happens: be, go, voyage · To what, where: sea
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, my), 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 | _ | 4 voyage | case |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 voyage | nmod:poss |
| 3 | sixth | sixth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 voyage | amod |
| 4 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 determined | obl |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 determined | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 determined | cop |
| 7 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 8 determined | advmod |
| 8 | determined | determined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 go | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 go | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 go | aux |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 determined | ccomp |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 sea | case |
| 14 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 go | obl |
| 15 | no | no | ADV | _ | 16 more | advmod |
| 16 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 go | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 determined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | I | after my sixth voyage | determined property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go | would | I | sea | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sea=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | voyage | my | nom voyage «act 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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