The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 6

The deck was full of people, who watched my progress with interest, but when I seized a rope and swung myself on board, I found that I had only escaped death at the hands of the genius to perish by those of the sailors, lest I should bring ill-luck to the vessel and the merchants. "

Who acts: deck, I, my · What happens: be, watch, seize, swing, find, escape · To what, where: progress, rope, myself, board, escaped death, hands · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (deck, I, my), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 deck	det
2	deck	deck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 full	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 full	cop
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 people	case
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 full	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 watched	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 watched	nsubj
9	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 full	parataxis
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 progress	nmod:poss
11	progress	progress	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 watched	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 interest	case
13	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 watched	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 seized	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 seized	cc
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 seized	advmod
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 seized	nsubj
18	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 watched	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 rope	det
20	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 seized	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 swung	cc
22	swung	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 seized	conj
23	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 swung	obj
24	on	on	ADP	_	25 board	case
25	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 swung	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 found	punct
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 found	nsubj
28	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 full	parataxis
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 escaped	mark
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 escaped	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 escaped	aux
32	only	only	ADV	_	33 escaped	advmod
33	escaped	escape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 death	amod
34	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 found	obj
35	at	at	ADP	_	37 hands	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 hands	det
37	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 found	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 genius	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 genius	det
40	genius	genius	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 hands	nmod
41	to	to	PART	_	42 perish	mark
42	perish	perish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 found	ccomp
43	by	by	ADP	_	44 those	case
44	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	42 perish	obl
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 sailors	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 sailors	det
47	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 those	nmod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 bring	punct
49	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	52 bring	mark
50	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	52 bring	nsubj
51	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 bring	aux
52	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 perish	conj
53	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 luck	amod
54	-	-	PUNCT	_	53 ill	punct
55	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 bring	obj
56	to	to	ADP	_	58 vessel	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 vessel	det
58	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 bring	obl
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 merchants	cc
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 merchants	det
61	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 vessel	conj
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 full	punct
63	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 full	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the deck			of people; full property	tree rules
2	watch	past		my progress		with interest	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent progress=Theme
3	seize	past	I	a rope			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Theme
4	swing	past	I not said here	myself	board		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent myself=Theme on board=Location
5	find	past	I	escaped death	the hands of the genius		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent death=Attribute clause=Theme
6	escape	past · perfect	I				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	perish	to-infinitive				by those	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
8	bring	should	I	ill luck	the vessel and the merchants		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent luck=Theme to vessel=Destination
9	progress		my				nom progress «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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