The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 19
We bought merchandise, loaded a vessel with it, and set forth with a favorable wind.
Who acts: We · What happens: buy, load, set · To what, where: merchandise, vessel
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 bought | nsubj |
| 2 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | merchandise | merchandise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bought | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 loaded | punct |
| 5 | loaded | load | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bought | conj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 vessel | det |
| 7 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 loaded | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 loaded | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 set | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 set | cc |
| 12 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 bought | advcl |
| 13 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 12 set | advmod |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 wind | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 wind | det |
| 16 | favorable | favorable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 wind | amod |
| 17 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 set | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | past | We | merchandise | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent merchandise=Theme | ||||
| 2 | load | past | We not said here | a vessel | with merchandise | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent vessel=Destination with it=Theme | |||
| 3 | set | infinitive | We not said here | with a favorable wind; forth property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with wind=Instrument |
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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