The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 95
Whilst the prince was settling down to this second year of toil and privation, the ship made a rapid voyage and arrived safely at the Ebony Island.
Who acts: prince, ship · What happens: settle down, make, arrive · To what, where: rapid voyage, Ebony Island
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 (prince, 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 | Whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 5 settling | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 settling | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 settling | aux |
| 5 | settling | settle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 made | advcl |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 settling | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 year | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 year | det |
| 9 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 year | amod |
| 10 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 settling | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 toil | case |
| 12 | toil | toil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 year | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 privation | cc |
| 14 | privation | privation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 year | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 settling | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ship | det |
| 17 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 made | nsubj |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 voyage | det |
| 20 | rapid | rapid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 voyage | amod |
| 21 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 made | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 arrived | cc |
| 23 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 made | conj |
| 24 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 23 arrived | advmod |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 Island | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Island | det |
| 27 | Ebony | Ebony | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Island | compound |
| 28 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 arrived | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | settle down | past · progressive | the prince | year | down property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | make | past | the ship | a rapid voyage | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material voyage=Product | ||||
| 3 | arrive | past | the ship not said here | the Ebony Island | safely property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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