The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 113

The gardener informed Camaralzaman that they were quite a year's land journey to any Mahomedan country, but that there was a much shorter route by sea to the Ebony Island, from whence the Isles of the Children of Khaledan could be easily reached, and that a ship sailed once a year for the Ebony Island by which he might get so far as his very home.

Who acts: gardener, Camaralzaman, ship · What happens: inform, be, reach, sail, get · To what, where: Camaralzaman, land journey, shorter route, Isles · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (gardener, Camaralzaman, ship), 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 gardener	det
2	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 informed	nsubj
3	informed	inform	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Camaralzaman	Camaralzaman	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 informed	iobj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 journey	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 journey	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 journey	cop
8	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	13 journey	det:predet
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 journey	det
10	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 land	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 year	case
12	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 journey	compound
13	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 informed	ccomp
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 country	case
15	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	17 country	det
16	Mahomedan	Mahomedan	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 country	compound
17	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 journey	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 route	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 route	cc
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 was	mark
21	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	22 was	expl
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 route	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 route	det
24	much	much	ADV	_	25 shorter	advmod
25	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 route	amod
26	route	route	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 informed	obl
27	by	by	ADP	_	28 sea	case
28	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 route	nmod
29	to	to	ADP	_	32 Island	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Island	det
31	Ebony	Ebony	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Island	compound
32	Island	Island	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 route	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 Isles	punct
34	from	from	ADP	_	37 Isles	case
35	whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	37 Isles	advmod
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Isles	det
37	Isles	Isle	PROPN	Number=Plur	46 reached	nsubj:pass
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 Children	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 Children	det
40	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 Isles	nmod
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 Khaledan	case
42	Khaledan	Khaledan	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 Children	nmod
43	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 reached	aux
44	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	46 reached	aux:pass
45	easily	easily	ADV	_	46 reached	advmod
46	reached	reach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 route	acl:relcl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 sailed	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 sailed	cc
49	that	that	SCONJ	_	52 sailed	mark
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 ship	det
51	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 sailed	nsubj
52	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 informed	conj
53	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	52 sailed	advmod
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 year	det
55	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 once	obl:unmarked
56	for	for	ADP	_	59 Island	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 Island	det
58	Ebony	Ebony	PROPN	Number=Sing	59 Island	compound
59	Island	Island	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 sailed	obl
60	by	by	ADP	_	61 which	case
61	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	64 get	obl
62	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 get	nsubj
63	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	64 get	aux
64	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 sailed	advcl
65	so	so	ADV	_	66 far	advmod
66	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	64 get	advmod
67	as	as	SCONJ	_	70 home	mark
68	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	70 home	nmod:poss
69	very	very	ADV	_	70 home	advmod
70	home	home	ADV	_	66 far	advcl
71	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 informed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	inform speech: other	past	the gardener		Camaralzaman		vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent camaralzaman=Recipient
2	is a	past	Camaralzaman	quite land journey		to any Mahomedan country	tree rules
3	is a	past		a shorter route		by sea; to the Ebony Island	tree rules
4	reach	could · passive		the Isles of the Children of Khaledan		easily property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme
5	sail	past	a ship			for the Ebony Island; once property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
6	get	might	gardener			far property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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