The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 3

"It is well," he answered, "the monsoon will soon bring the ivory ships hither, then I will send you on your way with somewhat to pay your passage."

Who acts: liberty, he, monsoon, I, your · What happens: be, answer, bring, send, pay, pass · To what, where: ivory ships, you, way, passage · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (liberty, he, monsoon, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 is	nsubj
3	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 is	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 answered	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 answered	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 answered	nsubj
8	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 is	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bring	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 bring	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 monsoon	det
12	monsoon	monsoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bring	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 bring	aux
14	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 bring	advmod
15	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 answered	ccomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 ships	det
17	ivory	ivory	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ships	compound
18	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 bring	obj
19	hither	hither	ADV	_	15 bring	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 send	punct
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 send	advmod
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 send	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 send	aux
24	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 bring	parataxis
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 send	iobj
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 way	case
27	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 way	nmod:poss
28	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 send	obl
29	with	with	SCONJ	_	32 pay	mark
30	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	_	32 pay	advmod
31	to	to	PART	_	32 pay	mark
32	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 send	advcl
33	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 passage	nmod:poss
34	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 pay	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be in a quote	present	liberty					well property	tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past	he						tree rules
3	bring in a quote	future	the monsoon	the ivory ships				hither, soon property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent ship=Theme
4	send in a quote	future	I		you	your way	then		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
5	pay in a quote	to-infinitive	I not said here	your passage				somewhat property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passage=Asset
6	pass in a quote		your						nom passage «act intransitive»: 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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