The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 83
At daybreak the ship's captain and some of his sailors knocked at the garden door and asked for the passenger who was to embark.
Who acts: some, passenger · What happens: knock, ask, be
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (some, passenger), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 daybreak | case |
| 2 | daybreak | daybreak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 knocked | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ship | det |
| 4 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 captain | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 ship | case |
| 6 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 some | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 some | cc |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 knocked | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 sailors | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 sailors | nmod:poss |
| 11 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 some | nmod |
| 12 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 door | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 door | det |
| 15 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 door | compound |
| 16 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 knocked | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 asked | cc |
| 18 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 knocked | conj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 passenger | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 passenger | det |
| 21 | passenger | passenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 asked | obl |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 embark | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 embark | cop |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 embark | mark |
| 25 | embark | embark | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 passenger | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 knocked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | knock | past | some | at the garden door; at daybreak | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at daybreak=Patient | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | some not said here | for the passenger | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the passenger | embark property | tree rules |
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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