The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 39

I sprang up and drew the bow and arrows out of the ground, and with the third shot the horseman fell with a great crash into the sea, which instantly began to rise, so rapidly, that I had hardly time to bury the horse before the boat approached me.

Who acts: I, horseman, sea, boat · What happens: spring up, draw, arrow, shoot, fall, begin · To what, where: bow, ground, sea, horse, me

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, horseman, sea, boat), 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	2 sprang	nsubj
2	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 sprang	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 drew	cc
5	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sprang	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bow	det
7	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drew	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 arrows	cc
9	arrows	arrow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 drew	conj
10	out	out	ADP	_	13 ground	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 ground	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ground	det
13	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 arrows	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 shot	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 shot	cc
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 third	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 third	det
18	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 shot	obl
19	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sprang	parataxis
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 horseman	det
21	horseman	horseman	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fell	nsubj
22	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 shot	ccomp
23	with	with	ADP	_	26 crash	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 crash	det
25	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 crash	amod
26	crash	crash	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fell	obl
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 sea	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sea	det
29	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fell	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 began	punct
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 began	nsubj
32	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	33 began	advmod
33	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 sea	acl:relcl
34	to	to	PART	_	35 rise	mark
35	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 began	xcomp
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 rapidly	punct
37	so	so	ADV	_	38 rapidly	advmod
38	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	_	19 shot	advmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 had	punct
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 had	mark
41	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 had	nsubj
42	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 shot	conj
43	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	44 time	advmod
44	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 had	obj
45	to	to	PART	_	46 bury	mark
46	bury	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 time	acl
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 horse	det
48	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 bury	obj
49	before	before	SCONJ	_	52 approached	mark
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 boat	det
51	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 approached	nsubj
52	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 bury	advcl
53	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	52 approached	obj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sprang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spring up	past	I					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	draw	past	I not said here	the bow				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Theme
3	arrow	present	I not said here		the ground			tree rules
4	shoot	past					with the third; rapidly property	tree rules
5	fall	past	the horseman				into the sea result; with a great crash	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into sea=Result
6	begin	past	the sea				instantly property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	rise	to-infinitive	the sea not said here					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	have	past	I			time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
9	bury	to-infinitive	I not said here	the horse				vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme
10	approach	past	the boat	me				vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme

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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