--- title: He went to open it, and was immediately seized by the captain and sa… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: He went to open it, and was immediately seized by the captain and sailors, who without a word of explanation forcibly bore him off to the boat, which took them back to the ship without loss of time. Who acts: captain, word, boat. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Open --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/27/31/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Arabian Nights Entertainments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/) / [Opening, part 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/27/) / 31 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 31 He went to open it, and was immediately seized by the captain and sailors, who without a word of explanation forcibly bore him off to the boat, which took them back to the ship without loss of time. **Who acts:** captain, word, boat · **What happens:** go, open, seize, bear off, take back, word · **To what, where:** knock, captain, sailors, ship, explanation This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (captain, word, boat), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg128:27:31 # text = He went to open it, and was immediately seized by the captain and sailors, who without a word of explanation forcibly bore him off to the boat, which took them back to the ship without loss of time. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 open open VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 9 immediately immediately ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 seized seize VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 11 by by ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 captain captain NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 sailors sailor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 18 without without ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 explanation explanation NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 23 forcibly forcibly ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 bore bear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 25 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 off off ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 nsubj _ _ 32 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 acl:relcl _ _ 33 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 back back ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 38 without without ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 loss loss NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | captain | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **open** | to-infinitive | captain *not said here* | knock | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | | 3 | **seize** | past · passive | the captain and sailors and a word of explanation | | | | | immediately *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **bear off** | past | a word of explanation *not said here* | captain | | | | to the boat; forcibly *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | | 5 | **take back** | past | the boat | sailors *= sailor* | | the ship | | without loss of time | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to ship=Destination | | 6 | **word** | | | explanation | | | | | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/27/30/) - next →: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/27/32/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/27/)