The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 100
It was the last struggle of the genius, and up to that time I was quite safe.
Who acts: seed, I · What happens: be · To what, where: last struggle, time
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (seed, I), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 struggle | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 struggle | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 struggle | det |
| 4 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 struggle | amod |
| 5 | struggle | struggle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 genius | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 genius | det |
| 8 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 struggle | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 time | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 time | cc |
| 11 | up | up | ADV | _ | 14 time | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 time | case |
| 13 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 time | det |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 struggle | conj |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 safe | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 safe | cop |
| 17 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 18 safe | advmod |
| 18 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 time | acl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 struggle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | seed | the last struggle and that time | of the genius | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | I | that time not said here | safe property | tree rules |
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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