The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 7
The captain accordingly sent his boat off to the ship and it soon returned laden with the fifty pots of olives.
Who acts: captain · What happens: send off, lade · To what, where: boat, ship
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 | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 4 sent | advmod |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 boat | nmod:poss |
| 6 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | obj |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 sent | compound:prt |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 ship | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ship | det |
| 10 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 laden | cc |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 laden | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 laden | advmod |
| 14 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 laden | aux:pass |
| 15 | laden | lade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sent | conj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 pots | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 pots | det |
| 18 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 pots | nummod |
| 19 | pots | pot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 laden | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 olives | case |
| 21 | olives | olive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 pots | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send off | past | the captain | captain's boat | the ship | accordingly property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent boat=Theme to ship=Destination | ||
| 2 | lade | past · passive | boat | with the fifty pots of olives; soon property | tree rules |
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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