Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 20
He loaded a vessel full of merchandise of all descriptions and with some chosen companions weighed anchor and set sail for the open sea.
Who acts: minister, vessel · What happens: load, choose, weigh, set · To what, where: anchor, sail
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Eighth Key.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (minister, vessel), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree 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 loaded | nsubj |
| 2 | loaded | load | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 vessel | det |
| 4 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 weighed | nsubj |
| 5 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 vessel | amod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 merchandise | case |
| 7 | merchandise | merchandise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 full | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 descriptions | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 descriptions | det |
| 10 | descriptions | description | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 merchandise | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 companions | cc |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 companions | case |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 companions | det |
| 14 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 companions | amod |
| 15 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 descriptions | conj |
| 16 | weighed | weigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 loaded | ccomp |
| 17 | anchor | anchor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 weighed | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 set | cc |
| 19 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 weighed | conj |
| 20 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 set | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 sea | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sea | det |
| 23 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 sea | amod |
| 24 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 set | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 loaded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | load | past | minister | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | choose | participle | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | weigh | past | a vessel | anchor | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme anchor=Value | ||||
| 4 | set | past | a vessel not said here | sail | for the open sea | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent sail=Patient for sea=Beneficiary |
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: «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (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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