The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 67
We had barely reached it when he joined us himself, carrying a small vessel of water, a pickaxe, and a little bag containing plaster.
Who acts: We, prince, little bag · What happens: reach, join, carry, contain · To what, where: place, us, small vessel, plaster
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, prince, little bag), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reached | aux |
| 3 | barely | barely | ADV | _ | 4 reached | advmod |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reached | obj |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 joined | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 joined | nsubj |
| 8 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reached | conj |
| 9 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 joined | obj |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 joined | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 carrying | punct |
| 12 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 joined | advcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 vessel | det |
| 14 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 vessel | amod |
| 15 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carrying | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 water | case |
| 17 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 vessel | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 pickaxe | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 pickaxe | det |
| 20 | pickaxe | pickaxe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 vessel | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 bag | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 bag | cc |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 bag | det |
| 24 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 bag | amod |
| 25 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obl |
| 26 | containing | contain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 bag | acl |
| 27 | plaster | plaster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 containing | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past · perfect | We | place | a little bag obl; barely property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | join | past | prince | us | prince obl | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient | |||
| 3 | carry | gerund | prince not said here | a small vessel of water and a pickaxe | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vessel=Theme | ||||
| 4 | contain | gerund | a little bag not said here | plaster | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot plaster=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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