The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 43
The words were scarcely out of my mouth when the boat and man sank from beneath me, and left me floating on the surface.
Who acts: words, boat · What happens: be, sink, leave, float · To what, where: mouth, me, surface
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 (words, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 words | det |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 mouth | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 mouth | cop |
| 4 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 8 mouth | advmod |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 mouth | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 mouth | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 sank | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 boat | det |
| 11 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sank | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 man | cc |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 boat | conj |
| 14 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 mouth | advcl |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 me | case |
| 16 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 17 me | case |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 sank | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 left | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 left | cc |
| 20 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 mouth | conj |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 left | iobj |
| 22 | floating | float | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 left | xcomp |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 surface | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 surface | det |
| 25 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 floating | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 mouth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the words | my mouth | scarcely property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sink | past | the boat and man | from me | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | leave | past | the words not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | float | gerund | the words not said here | the surface | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on surface=Trajectory |
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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