The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 11
The prince and his companion now continued their journey by land and sea, and as they had brought plenty of money to defray their expenses they met with no needless delays.
Who acts: prince, roads · What happens: continue, bring, defray, meet, journey · To what, where: journey, roads, expenses
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, roads), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 continued | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 companion | cc |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 companion | nmod:poss |
| 5 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 prince | conj |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 continued | advmod |
| 7 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 journey | nmod:poss |
| 9 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 continued | obj |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 land | case |
| 11 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 continued | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sea | cc |
| 13 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 land | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 brought | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 brought | cc |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 brought | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 brought | aux |
| 19 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 continued | conj |
| 20 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 brought | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 money | case |
| 22 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 plenty | nmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 defray | mark |
| 24 | defray | defray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 brought | advcl |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 expenses | nmod:poss |
| 26 | expenses | expense | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 defray | obj |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 met | nsubj |
| 28 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 expenses | acl:relcl |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 delays | case |
| 30 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 32 delays | det |
| 31 | needless | needless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 delays | amod |
| 32 | delays | delay | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 met | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | the prince and Prince's companion | roads's journey | now | by land and sea | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent journey=Theme | ||
| 2 | bring | past · perfect · passive | roads = road | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination plenty=Theme | |||||
| 3 | defray | to-infinitive | roads's expenses | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | meet | past | roads = road | roads's expenses not said here | with no needless delays | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent expense=Theme with delay=Instrument | |||
| 5 | journey | roads = road | 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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