The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 16

He packed up his wares, and instead of returning to Bagdad, joined a caravan that was going to Cairo.

Who acts: Ali, caravan · What happens: pack up, return, join, go · To what, where: wares, Bagdad, caravan, Cairo

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ali, caravan), 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 packed	nsubj
2	packed	pack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 packed	compound:prt
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 wares	nmod:poss
5	wares	ware	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 packed	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 returning	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 returning	cc
8	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	10 returning	mark
9	of	of	ADP	_	8 instead	fixed
10	returning	return	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 packed	advcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 Bagdad	case
12	Bagdad	Bagdad	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 returning	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 joined	punct
14	joined	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 packed	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 caravan	det
16	caravan	caravan	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 joined	obj
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 going	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 going	aux
19	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 caravan	acl:relcl
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 Cairo	case
21	Cairo	Cairo	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 going	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 packed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	pack up	past	Ali	Ali's wares			vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ware=Theme
2	return	gerund	Ali not said here		Bagdad		vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to bagdad=Result
3	join	past	Ali not said here	a caravan			vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent caravan=Patient
4	go	past · progressive	a caravan			Cairo	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cairo=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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