The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 31

And, indeed, even the steps themselves were so narrow and so steep that, if the lightest breeze had arisen, I should certainly have been blown into the sea.

Who acts: steps, lightest breeze · What happens: be, arise, blow · To what, where: I, sea

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 (steps, lightest breeze), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg128:960): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	11 narrow	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 narrow	punct
3	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	11 narrow	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 indeed	punct
5	even	even	ADV	_	7 steps	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 steps	det
7	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 narrow	nsubj
8	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	7 steps	nmod:unmarked
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 narrow	cop
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 narrow	advmod
11	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 steep	cc
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 steep	advmod
14	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 narrow	conj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 blown	mark
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 arisen	punct
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 arisen	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 breeze	det
19	lightest	light	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 breeze	amod
20	breeze	breeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 arisen	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 arisen	aux
22	arisen	arise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 blown	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 arisen	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 blown	nsubj
25	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 blown	aux
26	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	29 blown	advmod
27	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 blown	aux
28	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 blown	aux:pass
29	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 narrow	advcl
30	into	into	ADP	_	32 sea	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 sea	det
32	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 blown	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 narrow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the steps steps			indeed, narrow property	tree rules
2	be		the steps steps not said here				tree rules
3	arise a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	the lightest breeze				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	blow	should · perfect · passive		I	the sea	certainly property	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into sea=Product

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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