The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 21

Then we bought the merchandise of the country, and were just going to sail once more, when I was stopped on the shore by a beautiful though poorly dressed woman.

Who acts: we, beautiful dressed woman · What happens: buy, go, sail, stop, dress · To what, where: merchandise, I, shore

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, beautiful dressed woman), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 bought	advmod
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 bought	nsubj
3	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 merchandise	det
5	merchandise	merchandise	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bought	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 country	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 country	det
8	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 merchandise	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 going	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 going	cc
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 going	aux
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 going	advmod
13	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 bought	advcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 sail	mark
15	sail	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 going	xcomp
16	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	15 sail	advmod
17	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 sail	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 stopped	punct
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 stopped	advmod
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 stopped	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 stopped	aux:pass
22	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 bought	conj
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 shore	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 shore	det
25	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stopped	obl
26	by	by	ADP	_	32 woman	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 woman	det
28	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 woman	amod
29	though	though	ADV	_	31 dressed	advmod
30	poorly	poorly	ADV	_	31 dressed	advmod
31	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 woman	amod
32	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stopped	obl:agent
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	past	we	the merchandise of the country		then		vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent merchandise=Theme
2	go	past · progressive	we not said here					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	sail	to-infinitive	we not said here				once property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
4	stop	past · passive	a beautiful dressed woman	I	the shore			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector subject=Eventuality
5	dress	participle					poorly, though property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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