The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 28

The captain had no choice but to do as he was bid, so hastily provisioning his ship he started that same evening on his return voyage.

Who acts: captain · What happens: have, do, bid, provision, start, voyage · To what, where: choice, captain, ship, return voyage

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), 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 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 choice	det
5	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 do	cc
7	to	to	PART	_	8 do	mark
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	conj
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 bid	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 bid	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 bid	aux:pass
12	bid	bid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 do	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 provisioning	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 provisioning	advmod
15	hastily	hastily	ADV	_	16 provisioning	advmod
16	provisioning	provision	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 do	advcl
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 ship	nmod:poss
18	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 provisioning	obj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 started	nsubj
20	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 provisioning	parataxis
21	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 evening	det
22	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 evening	amod
23	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 started	obl:unmarked
24	on	on	ADP	_	27 voyage	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 voyage	nmod:poss
26	return	return	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 voyage	amod
27	voyage	voyage	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 started	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the captain	no choice				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent choice=Patient
2	do	to-infinitive	the captain not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	bid	past · passive		captain				tree rules
4	provision	gerund	the captain not said here	captain's ship			hastily property	tree rules
5	start	past	captain		captain's return voyage	evening		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	voyage		captain					nom voyage «act 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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