The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 43
At the mouth of the Euphrates they found a ship just about to start for Bagdad.
Who acts: Euphrates · What happens: find, start · To what, where: ship, mouth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Euphrates), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 mouth | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mouth | det |
| 3 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 found | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Euphrates | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Euphrates | det |
| 6 | Euphrates | Euphrate | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 mouth | nmod |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 found | nsubj |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 ship | det |
| 10 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 found | obj |
| 11 | just | just | ADV | _ | 12 about | advmod |
| 12 | about | about | ADV | _ | 14 start | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 start | mark |
| 14 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 found | ccomp |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 Bagdad | case |
| 16 | Bagdad | Bagdad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 start | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Euphrates = euphrate | a ship | the mouth of the Euphrates | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent ship=Attribute clause=Theme | |||
| 2 | start | to-infinitive | for Bagdad; about property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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