The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 3

However there was no use in stopping where I was, so I came down the mountain and found myself in a flat plain which was bounded by the sea.

Who acts: use, I, sea · What happens: stop, be, find, bound · To what, where: myself, flat plain

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 (use, I, sea), 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	However	however	ADV	_	3 was	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 came	cop
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 use	det
5	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 was	nsubj
6	in	in	SCONJ	_	7 stopping	mark
7	stopping	stop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 use	acl
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 was	advmod
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 was	nsubj
10	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stopping	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 came	advmod
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 came	nsubj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	down	down	ADV	_	14 came	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 mountain	det
17	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	nsubj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 found	cc
19	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 came	conj
20	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 found	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 plain	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 plain	det
23	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 plain	amod
24	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 found	obl
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 bounded	nsubj:pass
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 bounded	aux:pass
27	bounded	bound	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 plain	acl:relcl
28	by	by	ADP	_	30 sea	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 sea	det
30	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bounded	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stop	gerund	no use not said here				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	be	past	I				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	I			come, down property	tree rules
4	find	past	I not said here	myself	a flat plain		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Topic
5	bound	past · passive	the sea	a flat plain			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location subject=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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