The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 61
Some twenty days' sail from the coast of Persia lies the isle of the children of Khaledan.
Who acts: sail · What happens: lie · To what, where: isle
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 (sail), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 days | det |
| 2 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 days | nummod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sail | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 3 days | case |
| 5 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lies | nsubj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 coast | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 coast | det |
| 8 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sail | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Persia | case |
| 10 | Persia | Persia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 coast | nmod |
| 11 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 isle | det |
| 13 | isle | isle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lies | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 children | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 children | det |
| 16 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 isle | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Khaledan | case |
| 18 | Khaledan | Khaledan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 children | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 lies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | some twenty days's sail from the coast of Persia | the isle of the children of Khaledan | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location isle=Theme |
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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