The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 62

The next thing was to divide the camels, and to charge them with the treasure, after which we each took command of our own and marched out of the valley, till we reached the place in the high road where the routes diverge, and then we parted, the dervish going towards Balsora, and I to Bagdad.

Who acts: next thing, we, routes, dervish · What happens: be, charge, take, march, reach, diverge · To what, where: camels, command, valley, place, high road, 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 (next thing, we, routes, dervish), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 thing	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thing	amod
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 divide	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 divide	cop
5	to	to	PART	_	6 divide	mark
6	divide	divide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 camels	det
8	camels	camel	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 divide	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 charge	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 charge	cc
11	to	to	PART	_	12 charge	mark
12	charge	charge	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 divide	parataxis
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 charge	iobj
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 treasure	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 treasure	det
16	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 charge	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 took	punct
18	after	after	ADP	_	19 which	case
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 took	obl
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 took	nsubj
21	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	22 took	nsubj
22	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 charge	parataxis
23	command	command	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 took	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 own	case
25	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 own	nmod:poss
26	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 command	nmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 marched	cc
28	marched	march	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 took	conj
29	out	out	ADP	_	32 valley	case
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 valley	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 valley	det
32	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 marched	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 reached	punct
34	till	till	SCONJ	_	36 reached	mark
35	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 reached	nsubj
36	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 marched	conj
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 place	det
38	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 reached	obj
39	in	in	ADP	_	42 road	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 road	det
41	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 road	amod
42	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 reached	obl
43	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	46 diverge	advmod
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 routes	det
45	routes	route	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 diverge	nsubj
46	diverge	diverge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 road	acl:relcl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 parted	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 parted	cc
49	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	51 parted	advmod
50	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	51 parted	nsubj
51	parted	part	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 took	conj
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 dervish	punct
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 dervish	det
54	dervish	dervish	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 parted	obj
55	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	54 dervish	acl
56	towards	towards	ADP	_	57 Balsora	case
57	Balsora	Balsora	PROPN	Number=Sing	55 going	obl
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 I	punct
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 I	cc
60	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 divide	conj
61	to	to	ADP	_	62 Bagdad	case
62	Bagdad	Bagdad	PROPN	Number=Sing	60 I	nmod
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 divide	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the next thing					divide property	tree rules
2	charge	to-infinitive			camels = camel			with the treasure	vn equip-13.4.2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient with treasure=Theme
3	take	past	we	command of our own					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent command=Theme
4	march	past	we not said here			the valley			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out valley=Trajectory
5	reach	past	we	the place		the high road			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent place=Theme
6	diverge	present	the routes						vn differ-23.4 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	part	past	we	the dervish			then		vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dervish=Patient
8	go	gerund	the dervish not said here			Balsora			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards balsora=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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