The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 23

In reply the captain told her all he knew of the place where the young man lived, and how, after engaging his passage, he came to be left behind.

Who acts: captain, young man · What happens: tell, know, live, engage, come, leave behind · To what, where: Badoura, reply, passage · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (captain, young man), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 reply	case
2	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 captain	det
4	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	iobj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 her	det
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 knew	nsubj
9	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	ccomp
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 place	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 place	det
12	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 knew	obl
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 lived	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 man	det
15	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 man	amod
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lived	nsubj
17	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 place	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 engaging	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 engaging	cc
20	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	23 engaging	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 engaging	punct
22	after	after	SCONJ	_	23 engaging	mark
23	engaging	engage	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 told	advcl
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 passage	nmod:poss
25	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 engaging	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 came	punct
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 came	nsubj
28	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	31 left	mark
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 left	aux:pass
31	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 came	advcl
32	behind	behind	ADV	_	31 left	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the captain		Badoura	reply		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	know	past	captain				of the place	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of place=Stimulus
3	live	past	the young man					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	engage	gerund	the captain not said here	captain's passage				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passage=Patient
5	come	past	captain					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	leave behind	to-infinitive · passive	captain not said here				behind property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»
7	pass		captain					nom passage «act intransitive»: 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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