The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 5

There were no waves, so I broke off the branch of a tree, and dragging it down to the water's edge, sat across it, while, using two sticks for oars, I rowed myself towards the ship.

Who acts: waves, I · What happens: be, break off, drag down, sit, use, row · To what, where: branch, edge, two sticks, myself, ship

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 (waves, 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 waves	det
4	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 broke	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 broke	advmod
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 broke	nsubj
8	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 were	conj
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 broke	compound:prt
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 branch	det
11	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 broke	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 tree	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 tree	det
14	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 branch	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sat	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sat	cc
17	dragging	drag	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 sat	advcl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 dragging	obj
19	down	down	ADP	_	17 dragging	compound:prt
20	to	to	ADP	_	24 edge	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 water	det
22	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 edge	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 water	case
24	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 dragging	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 dragging	punct
26	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 were	conj
27	across	across	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 sat	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 using	punct
30	while	while	SCONJ	_	32 using	mark
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 using	punct
32	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 sat	advcl
33	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 sticks	nummod
34	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 using	obj
35	for	for	ADP	_	36 oars	case
36	oars	oar	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 using	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 rowed	punct
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 rowed	nsubj
39	rowed	row	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 were	conj
40	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	39 rowed	obj
41	towards	towards	ADP	_	43 ship	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 ship	det
43	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 rowed	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	no waves		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	break off	past	I	the branch of a tree			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer branch=Patient
3	drag down	gerund		branch	the water's edge		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to edge=Destination
4	sit	past	no waves not said here		edge		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	use	gerund	no waves not said here	two sticks		for oars	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent stick=Theme for oar=Eventuality
6	row	past	I	myself	the ship		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent myself=Theme towards ship=Trajectory

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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