The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 29
When, after a rapid passage, he gained sight of the Island of Idolaters, he judged it better not to enter the harbour, but casting anchor at some distance he embarked at night in a small boat with six active sailors and landed near Camaralzaman's cottage.
Who acts: captain · What happens: gain, judge, not enter, cast, embark, land · To what, where: sight, harbour, anchor, small boat, cottage, Island
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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 passage | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 passage | punct |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 passage | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 passage | det |
| 5 | rapid | rapid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 passage | amod |
| 6 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gained | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 passage | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 gained | nsubj |
| 9 | gained | gain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gained | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Island | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Island | det |
| 13 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 sight | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Idolaters | case |
| 15 | Idolaters | Idolater | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 Island | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 judged | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 judged | nsubj |
| 18 | judged | judge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 gained | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 judged | obj |
| 20 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 enter | advmod |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 enter | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 enter | mark |
| 23 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 judged | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 harbour | det |
| 25 | harbour | harbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 enter | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 embarked | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 embarked | cc |
| 28 | casting | cast | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 embarked | csubj |
| 29 | anchor | anchor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 casting | obj |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 distance | case |
| 31 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 32 distance | det |
| 32 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 casting | obl |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 embarked | nsubj |
| 34 | embarked | embark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 gained | parataxis |
| 35 | at | at | ADP | _ | 36 night | case |
| 36 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 embarked | obl |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 boat | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 boat | det |
| 39 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 boat | amod |
| 40 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 embarked | obl |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 sailors | case |
| 42 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 44 sailors | nummod |
| 43 | active | active | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 sailors | amod |
| 44 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 embarked | obl |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 landed | cc |
| 46 | landed | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 embarked | conj |
| 47 | near | near | ADP | _ | 50 cottage | case |
| 48 | Camaralzaman | Camaralzaman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 cottage | nmod:poss |
| 49 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 48 Camaralzaman | case |
| 50 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 landed | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 gained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gain | past | captain | sight of the Island of Idolaters | after a rapid passage | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | |||
| 2 | judge | past | captain | sight | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent it=Value | ||||
| 3 | not enter | to-infinitive | captain not said here | the harbour | well property | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme harbour=Destination | |||
| 4 | cast | gerund | anchor | at some distance | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent anchor=Theme at distance=Destination | ||||
| 5 | embark | past | captain | a small boat | night | with six active sailors | tree rules | ||
| 6 | land | past | captain not said here | Camaralzaman's cottage | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | sight | the Island of Idolaters | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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