The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 32
No sooner were they on board than they weighed anchor and set sail.
Who acts: sailors · What happens: be, weigh · To what, where: sailors, anchor
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 (sailors), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 sooner | det |
| 2 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 weighed | advmod |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 they | cop |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sooner | conj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 board | case |
| 6 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sooner | obl |
| 7 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 9 weighed | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 weighed | nsubj |
| 9 | weighed | weigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | anchor | anchor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 weighed | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sail | cc |
| 12 | set | set | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sail | amod |
| 13 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 anchor | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 weighed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | sailors = sailor not said here | sailors = sailor | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | weigh | past | sailors = sailor | anchor and set sail | soon property | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme anchor=Value |
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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