The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 59
At length the camels were loaded with as much as they could carry, and nothing remained but to seal up the treasure, and go our ways.
Who acts: camels, nothing · What happens: load, carry, remain, seal up, go · To what, where: camels, length, treasure, ways
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 (camels, nothing), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 loaded | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 camels | det |
| 4 | camels | camel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 loaded | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 loaded | aux:pass |
| 6 | loaded | load | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 much | case |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 much | advmod |
| 9 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 loaded | obj |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 carry | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 carry | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 carry | aux |
| 13 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 much | acl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 remained | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 remained | cc |
| 16 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 17 remained | nsubj |
| 17 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 loaded | parataxis |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 go | cc |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 seal | mark |
| 20 | seal | seal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 go | advcl |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 seal | compound:prt |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 treasure | det |
| 23 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 seal | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 go | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 go | cc |
| 26 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 remained | conj |
| 27 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 ways | nmod:poss |
| 28 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 go | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 loaded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | load | past · passive | the camels | length | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | carry | could | camels = camel | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | remain | past | nothing | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | seal up | to-infinitive | the treasure | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Patient | |||||
| 5 | go | infinitive | nothing not said here | our ways | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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