The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 23

A passing caravan, on its way to Bagdad, told me where he was to be found, and I hurried to his rescue, and brought him in a deplorable condition back to the town.

Who acts: passing caravan, I, brother · What happens: tell, find, hurry, bring, rescue · To what, where: me, brother, rescue, deplorable condition · Speech: someone speaks here

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: who acts (passing caravan, I, brother), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 caravan	det
2	passing	passing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 caravan	amod
3	caravan	caravan	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 told	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 way	punct
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 way	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 way	nmod:poss
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caravan	appos
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 Bagdad	case
9	Bagdad	Bagdad	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 way	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 caravan	punct
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 told	iobj
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 found	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 found	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 found	aux:pass
16	to	to	PART	_	18 found	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 found	aux:pass
18	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 told	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hurried	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 hurried	cc
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 hurried	nsubj
22	hurried	hurry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 told	conj
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 rescue	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 rescue	nmod:poss
25	rescue	rescue	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hurried	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 brought	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 brought	cc
28	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 told	conj
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 brought	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	33 condition	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 condition	det
32	deplorable	deplorable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 condition	amod
33	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 brought	obl
34	back	back	ADV	_	28 brought	advmod
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 town	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 town	det
37	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 brought	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	a passing caravan		me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	find not said to happen	past · passive		brother				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
3	hurry	past	I			brother's rescue		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to rescue=Destination
4	bring	past	a passing caravan not said here	brother		a deplorable condition	to the town	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to town=Destination
5	rescue		brother					nom rescue «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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