The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 49
So I collected my camels and we set out together under the guidance of the dervish.
Who acts: I, we · What happens: collect, set out, guide · To what, where: camels, guidance, dervish
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 collected | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 collected | nsubj |
| 3 | collected | collect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 camels | nmod:poss |
| 5 | camels | camel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 collected | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 set | cc |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 set | nsubj |
| 8 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 collected | conj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 set | compound:prt |
| 10 | together | together | ADV | _ | 8 set | advmod |
| 11 | under | under | ADP | _ | 13 guidance | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 guidance | det |
| 13 | guidance | guidance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 set | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 dervish | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 dervish | det |
| 16 | dervish | dervish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 guidance | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 collected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | collect | past | I | my camels | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camel=Theme | ||||
| 2 | set out | past | we | the guidance of the dervish | together property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | guide | the dervish | nom guidance «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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