The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 20
Unluckily, the caravan was attacked and pillaged by the Bedouins, and the pilgrims were taken prisoners.
What happens: attack, pillage, take · To what, where: caravan, pilgrims
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Unluckily | unluckily | ADV | _ | 6 attacked | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Unluckily | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 caravan | det |
| 4 | caravan | caravan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 attacked | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 attacked | aux:pass |
| 6 | attacked | attack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 pillaged | cc |
| 8 | pillaged | pillage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 attacked | conj |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 Bedouins | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Bedouins | det |
| 11 | Bedouins | Bedouin | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 pillaged | obl:agent |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 taken | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 taken | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 pilgrims | det |
| 15 | pilgrims | pilgrim | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 taken | aux:pass |
| 17 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 attacked | conj |
| 18 | prisoners | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 taken | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 attacked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attack | past · passive | the caravan | unluckily property | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | pillage | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | take | past · passive | the pilgrims | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme prisoner=Destination |
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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