The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 44
They embarked, and immediately the anchor was raised and they set sail.
Who acts: Euphrates · What happens: embark, raise, set · To what, where: anchor, sail
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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 embarked | nsubj |
| 2 | embarked | embark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 raised | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 raised | cc |
| 5 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 9 raised | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 anchor | det |
| 7 | anchor | anchor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 raised | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 raised | aux:pass |
| 9 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 embarked | parataxis |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 set | cc |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 set | nsubj |
| 12 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 raised | conj |
| 13 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 set | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 embarked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | embark | past | Euphrates = euphrate | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | raise | past · passive | the anchor | immediately property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | set | past | Euphrates = euphrate | sail | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient sail=Result |
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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