The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 39
The return voyage was as prosperous as the former one, and though it was night when the ship entered the harbour, the captain lost no time in landing with his passenger, whom he conducted to the palace, where he begged an audience with the king.
Who acts: return voyage, voyage, ship, captain · What happens: be, enter, lose, land, conduct, beg · To what, where: harbour, passenger, palace, audience
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 (return voyage, voyage, ship, 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 | 3 voyage | det |
| 2 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 voyage | compound |
| 3 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 prosperous | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 prosperous | cop |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 prosperous | advmod |
| 6 | prosperous | prosperous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 one | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 one | det |
| 9 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 one | amod |
| 10 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 prosperous | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 entered | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 entered | cc |
| 13 | though | though | ADP | _ | 16 night | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 night | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 night | cop |
| 16 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 entered | obl |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 entered | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ship | det |
| 19 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 entered | nsubj |
| 20 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 prosperous | parataxis |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 harbour | det |
| 22 | harbour | harbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 entered | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 lost | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 captain | det |
| 25 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lost | nsubj |
| 26 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 entered | conj |
| 27 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 28 time | det |
| 28 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lost | obj |
| 29 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 30 landing | mark |
| 30 | landing | land | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 lost | advcl |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 passenger | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 passenger | nmod:poss |
| 33 | passenger | passenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 landing | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 conducted | punct |
| 35 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 conducted | obj |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 conducted | nsubj |
| 37 | conducted | conduct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 passenger | acl:relcl |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 palace | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 palace | det |
| 40 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 conducted | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 begged | punct |
| 42 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 44 begged | advmod |
| 43 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 begged | nsubj |
| 44 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 palace | acl:relcl |
| 45 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 audience | det |
| 46 | audience | audience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 begged | obj |
| 47 | with | with | ADP | _ | 49 king | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 king | det |
| 49 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 audience | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 prosperous | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the return voyage | as the former one; prosperous property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | voyage | though night | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | enter | past | the ship | the harbour | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme harbour=Destination | ||||
| 4 | lose | past | the captain | time | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | land | gerund | the captain not said here | with captain's passenger | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | conduct | past | captain | captain's passenger | the palace | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent whom=Theme to palace=Destination | |||
| 7 | beg speech: request | past | captain | a audience | with the king | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent audience=Recipient |
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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