The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 20
After two months' sailing we arrived at a seaport, where we disembarked and did a great trade.
Who acts: we · What happens: sail, arrive, disembark, do · To what, where: seaport, great trade
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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 sailing | mark |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 months | nummod |
| 3 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sailing | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 3 months | case |
| 5 | sailing | sail | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 arrived | advcl |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 arrived | nsubj |
| 7 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 seaport | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 seaport | det |
| 10 | seaport | seaport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 arrived | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 disembarked | punct |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 disembarked | advmod |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 disembarked | nsubj |
| 14 | disembarked | disembark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 arrived | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 did | cc |
| 16 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 disembarked | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 trade | det |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 trade | amod |
| 19 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 did | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | gerund | we not said here | month | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | arrive | past | we | a seaport | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | disembark | past | we | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | do | past | we not said here | a great trade | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trade=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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