The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 40

I stepped silently in and sat down, and the metal man pushed off, and rowed without stopping for nine days, after which land appeared on the horizon.

Who acts: I, metal man, land · What happens: step in, sit down, push off, row, stop, appear · To what, where: horizon

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, metal man, land), 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:pg128:968): 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 stepped	nsubj
2	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	silently	silently	ADV	_	2 stepped	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	2 stepped	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sat	cc
6	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stepped	conj
7	down	down	ADP	_	6 sat	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 pushed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 pushed	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 man	det
11	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 man	compound
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pushed	nsubj
13	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stepped	conj
14	off	off	ADP	_	13 pushed	compound:prt
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 rowed	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 rowed	cc
17	rowed	row	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 pushed	conj
18	without	without	SCONJ	_	19 stopping	mark
19	stopping	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 rowed	advcl
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 days	case
21	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 days	nummod
22	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 rowed	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 appeared	punct
24	after	after	ADP	_	25 which	case
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 appeared	obl
26	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 appeared	nsubj
27	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 days	acl:relcl
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 horizon	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 horizon	det
30	horizon	horizon	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 appeared	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stepped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	step in	past	I			silently property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit down	past	I not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	push off	past	the metal man				vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
4	row	past	the metal man not said here		day		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
5	stop	gerund	the metal man not said here				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	appear	past	land	the horizon	after nine days		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on horizon=Location

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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