The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 55
I was soon ready to start, and taking the letter and the present I embarked at Balsora, and sailed quickly and safely to Serendib.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, start, take, embark, sail · To what, where: letter, present, Balsora, Serendib
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 | 4 ready | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ready | cop |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 ready | advmod |
| 4 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 start | mark |
| 6 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ready | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 taking | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 taking | cc |
| 9 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 ready | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 letter | det |
| 11 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 taking | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 present | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 present | det |
| 14 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 letter | conj |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 embarked | nsubj |
| 16 | embarked | embark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 present | acl:relcl |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 Balsora | case |
| 18 | Balsora | Balsora | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 embarked | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sailed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 sailed | cc |
| 21 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ready | parataxis |
| 22 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 21 sailed | advmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 safely | cc |
| 24 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 22 quickly | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 Serendib | case |
| 26 | Serendib | Serendib | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 sailed | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | I | ready, soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | start | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | take | gerund | the letter and the present | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme | |||||
| 4 | embark | past | I | the present not said here | Balsora | tree rules | |||
| 5 | sail | past | Serendib | quickly property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to serendib=Trajectory |
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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