The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 29
I alone managed to grasp a floating plank, and was driven ashore by the wind, without even a scratch.
Who acts: I, wind · What happens: manage, grasp, float, drive · To what, where: floating plank
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, wind), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 managed | nsubj |
| 2 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 3 managed | advmod |
| 3 | managed | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 grasp | mark |
| 5 | grasp | grasp | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 managed | xcomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 plank | det |
| 7 | floating | float | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 plank | amod |
| 8 | plank | plank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grasp | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 driven | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 driven | cc |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 driven | aux:pass |
| 12 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 managed | conj |
| 13 | ashore | ashore | ADV | _ | 12 driven | advmod |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 wind | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wind | det |
| 16 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 driven | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 scratch | punct |
| 18 | without | without | ADP | _ | 21 scratch | case |
| 19 | even | even | ADV | _ | 21 scratch | advmod |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 scratch | det |
| 21 | scratch | scratch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 driven | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 managed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | manage | past | I | alone property | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | grasp | to-infinitive | I not said here | a floating plank | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer plank=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | float | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | drive | past · passive | the wind | without a scratch; ashore property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=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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