The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 99
The captain answered all her questions, and said that his passengers consisted entirely of traders who brought rich stuffs from various countries, fine muslins, precious stones, musk, amber, spices, drugs, olives, and many other things.
Who acts: captain, passengers, traders, rest · What happens: answer, say, consist, bring, question · To what, where: questions, many other things, rich stuffs, various countries · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (captain, passengers, traders, rest), 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 captain | det |
| 2 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 questions | advmod |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 questions | nmod:poss |
| 6 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 answered | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 answered | conj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 consisted | mark |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 passengers | nmod:poss |
| 12 | passengers | passenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 consisted | nsubj |
| 13 | consisted | consist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 14 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 13 consisted | advmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 traders | case |
| 16 | traders | trader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 consisted | obl |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 brought | nsubj |
| 18 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 traders | acl:relcl |
| 19 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 stuffs | amod |
| 20 | stuffs | stuff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 brought | obj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 countries | case |
| 22 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 countries | amod |
| 23 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 brought | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 muslins | punct |
| 25 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 muslins | amod |
| 26 | muslins | muslin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 countries | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 stones | punct |
| 28 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 stones | amod |
| 29 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 muslins | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 musk | punct |
| 31 | musk | musk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 muslins | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 amber | punct |
| 33 | amber | amber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 musk | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 spices | punct |
| 35 | spices | spice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 muslins | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 drugs | punct |
| 37 | drugs | drug | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 muslins | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 olives | punct |
| 39 | olives | olive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 drugs | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 things | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 things | cc |
| 42 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 things | amod |
| 43 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 things | amod |
| 44 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 consisted | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the captain | rest's questions | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the captain not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | consist | past | captain's passengers | many other things | of traders; entirely property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | bring | past | traders | rich stuffs | various countries and fine muslins and precious stones and musk and amber and spices and drugs and olives | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent stuff=Theme from country=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | question | rest | nom question «communication 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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