The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 93

When we had loaded our elephant with as many tusks as it could carry and were on our way back to the city, he said:

Who acts: we, curiosity, city · What happens: load, carry, be, say · To what, where: elephant, way · Speech: someone speaks here

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, curiosity, city), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 loaded	mark
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 loaded	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 loaded	aux
4	loaded	load	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 said	advcl
5	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 elephant	nmod:poss
6	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 loaded	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 tusks	case
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 many	advmod
9	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tusks	amod
10	tusks	tusk	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 loaded	obl
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 carry	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 carry	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 carry	aux
14	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 loaded	advcl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 way	cc
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 way	cop
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 way	case
18	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 way	nmod:poss
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 carry	conj
20	back	back	ADV	_	19 way	advmod
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 city	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 city	det
23	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 back	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 loaded	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 said	nsubj
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	load	past · perfect	we	our elephant		with many tusks	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent elephant=Destination with tusk=Theme
2	carry	could	curiosity				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	curiosity not said here		our way		tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	city				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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