The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 59
He started out one morning by moonlight and came to the sea-shore.
Who acts: sire · What happens: start out, come · To what, where: sea 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 (sire), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 started | nsubj |
| 2 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 started | compound:prt |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 morning | nummod |
| 5 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 started | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 moonlight | case |
| 7 | moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 started | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 came | cc |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 started | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 shore | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 shore | det |
| 12 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shore | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 sea | punct |
| 14 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start out | past | sire | morning | by moonlight | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | come | past | sire not said here | the sea shore | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to shore=Initial_Location |
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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