The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 95
In an instant I stood before her the same man I had formerly been, though having lost the sight of one eye.
Who acts: I · What happens: stand, lose, sight · To what, where: same man, instant, sight, one eye
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 (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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 instant | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 instant | det |
| 3 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 stood | nsubj |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | before | before | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stood | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 9 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obl |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 been | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 been | aux |
| 13 | formerly | formerly | ADV | _ | 14 been | advmod |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 man | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lost | punct |
| 16 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 18 lost | mark |
| 17 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 lost | aux |
| 18 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 stood | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sight | det |
| 20 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lost | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 eye | case |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 eye | nummod |
| 23 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sight | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | I | the same man | a instant | before shout | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in instant=Location | ||
| 2 | lose | gerund · perfect | I not said here | the sight of one eye | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | sight | one eye | nom sight «cognition 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.
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