The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 86

The sailors did as he asked, and the captain before leaving charged Camaralzaman to lose no time, as the wind was fair, and he wished to set sail at once.

Who acts: sailors, gardener, wind · What happens: do, ask, charge, lose, be, wish · To what, where: captain, Camaralzaman, sail

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 (sailors, gardener, wind), 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 sailors	det
2	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 asked	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 asked	nsubj
6	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 captain	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 captain	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 captain	det
10	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	parataxis
11	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 charged	mark
12	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 charged	aux:pass
13	charged	charge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 captain	acl
14	Camaralzaman	Camaralzaman	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 charged	iobj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 lose	mark
16	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 charged	xcomp
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 time	det
18	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lose	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 fair	punct
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 fair	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 wind	det
22	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fair	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 fair	cop
24	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 charged	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 wished	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 wished	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 wished	nsubj
28	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 set	mark
30	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 wished	xcomp
31	sail	sail	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 set	obj
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 once	case
33	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	30 set	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the sailors					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	ask speech: ask	past	gardener					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	charge	gerund · passive		the captain not said here	Camaralzaman			tree rules
4	lose	to-infinitive				time		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	the wind				fair property	tree rules
6	wish	past	gardener					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	set not said to happen	to-infinitive	gardener not said here	sail				vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sail=Theme at once=Destination

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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