The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 31
He went to open it, and was immediately seized by the captain and sailors, who without a word of explanation forcibly bore him off to the boat, which took them back to the ship without loss of time.
Who acts: captain, word, boat · What happens: go, open, seize, bear off, take back, word · To what, where: knock, captain, sailors, ship, explanation
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, word, boat), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 open | mark |
| 4 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 went | xcomp |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 open | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 seized | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 seized | cc |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 seized | aux:pass |
| 9 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 10 seized | advmod |
| 10 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 went | conj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 captain | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 captain | det |
| 13 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seized | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sailors | cc |
| 15 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 captain | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 word | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 word | nsubj |
| 18 | without | without | ADP | _ | 20 word | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 word | det |
| 20 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 captain | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 explanation | case |
| 22 | explanation | explanation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 word | nmod |
| 23 | forcibly | forcibly | ADV | _ | 24 bore | advmod |
| 24 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 word | acl:relcl |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 bore | obj |
| 26 | off | off | ADP | _ | 24 bore | compound:prt |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 boat | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 boat | det |
| 29 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bore | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 took | punct |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 took | nsubj |
| 32 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 boat | acl:relcl |
| 33 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 took | obj |
| 34 | back | back | ADV | _ | 32 took | advmod |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 ship | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 ship | det |
| 37 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 took | obl |
| 38 | without | without | ADP | _ | 39 loss | case |
| 39 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 took | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 time | case |
| 41 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 loss | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | captain | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | open | to-infinitive | captain not said here | knock | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | seize | past · passive | the captain and sailors and a word of explanation | immediately property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | bear off | past | a word of explanation not said here | captain | to the boat; forcibly property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 5 | take back | past | the boat | sailors = sailor | the ship | without loss of time | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to ship=Destination | ||
| 6 | word | explanation | nom word «communication 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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