The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 8
Our journey was long and tedious, but I bore it patiently, reflecting that at least I had not to fear tempests, nor pirates, nor serpents, nor any of the other perils from which I had suffered before, and at length we reached Bagdad.
Who acts: journey, I, any, Our · What happens: be, bear, reflect, not fear, suffer, reach · To what, where: journey, tempests, least, other perils, Bagdad, length
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 (journey, I, any, Our), 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 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 journey | nmod:poss |
| 2 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 long | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 long | cop |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 tedious | cc |
| 6 | tedious | tedious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 long | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bore | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 bore | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 bore | nsubj |
| 10 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 long | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 bore | obj |
| 12 | patiently | patiently | ADV | _ | 10 bore | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 reflecting | punct |
| 14 | reflecting | reflect | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 bore | advcl |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 fear | mark |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 least | case |
| 17 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 fear | obl |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 fear | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 fear | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 fear | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 fear | mark |
| 22 | fear | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 reflecting | advcl |
| 23 | tempests | tempest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 fear | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 pirates | punct |
| 25 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 26 pirates | cc |
| 26 | pirates | pirate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 tempests | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 serpents | punct |
| 28 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 29 serpents | cc |
| 29 | serpents | serpent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 bore | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 reached | punct |
| 31 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 48 reached | cc |
| 32 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 48 reached | nsubj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 perils | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 perils | det |
| 35 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 perils | amod |
| 36 | perils | peril | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 any | nmod |
| 37 | from | from | ADP | _ | 38 which | case |
| 38 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 suffered | obl |
| 39 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 suffered | nsubj |
| 40 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 suffered | aux |
| 41 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 36 perils | acl:relcl |
| 42 | before | before | ADV | _ | 41 suffered | advmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 reached | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 reached | cc |
| 45 | at | at | ADP | _ | 46 length | case |
| 46 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 reached | obl |
| 47 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 48 reached | nsubj |
| 48 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 long | conj |
| 49 | Bagdad | Bagdad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 reached | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Our journey | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Our journey not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | bear | past | I | journey | serpents obl; patiently property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 4 | reflect | gerund | I not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not fear | past | I | tempests nor pirates | least | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tempest=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | suffer | past · perfect | I | the other perils | before property | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 7 | reach | past | any | Bagdad | length | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent bagdad=Theme at length=Asset | |||
| 8 | journey | Our | nom journey «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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