The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 30

What was my joy on finding myself at the bottom of some steps which led straight up the mountain, for there was not another inch to the right or the left where a man could set his foot.

Who acts: right, joy, steps, man · What happens: be, find, lead, set · To what, where: joy, myself, bottom, mountain, foot

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 (right, joy, steps, man), 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 joy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 joy	cop
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 joy	nmod:poss
4	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 right	parataxis
5	on	on	SCONJ	_	6 finding	mark
6	finding	find	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 joy	acl
7	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 finding	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 bottom	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bottom	det
10	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 finding	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 steps	case
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 steps	det
13	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 bottom	nmod
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 led	nsubj
15	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 steps	acl:relcl
16	straight	straight	ADV	_	19 mountain	advmod
17	up	up	ADP	_	19 mountain	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 mountain	det
19	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 led	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 was	punct
21	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 was	mark
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 was	expl
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 right	cop
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 inch	advmod
25	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	26 inch	det
26	inch	inch	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 was	nsubj
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 right	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 right	det
29	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 left	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 left	det
32	left	left	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 right	conj
33	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	37 set	advmod
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 man	det
35	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 set	nsubj
36	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 set	aux
37	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 left	acl:relcl
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 foot	nmod:poss
39	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 set	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 right	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the right or the left	my joy			tree rules
2	find	gerund	my joy not said here	myself	the bottom of some steps		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent myself=Theme at bottom=Asset
3	lead	past	some steps	the mountain			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Theme
4	is	past				to the right or the left	tree rules
5	set	could	a man	man's foot			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient foot=Result

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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