The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 44
All that day and the next night I swam and floated alternately, making as well as I could for the land which was nearest to me.
Who acts: I, land · What happens: swim, float, make, be · To what, where: 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, land), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 day | det:predet |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 swam | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 night | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 night | det |
| 6 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 night | amod |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | conj |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 swam | nsubj |
| 9 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 floated | cc |
| 11 | floated | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 swam | conj |
| 12 | alternately | alternately | ADV | _ | 11 floated | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 making | punct |
| 14 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 floated | advcl |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 14 making | advmod |
| 16 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 as | fixed |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 could | mark |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 could | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 making | aux |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 land | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 land | det |
| 22 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 could | obl |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 nearest | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 nearest | cop |
| 25 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 land | acl:relcl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 me | case |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 nearest | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 swam | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim | past | I | day | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | float | past | I not said here | alternately property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | could | I not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 4 | is | past | the land | me | near property | tree rules |
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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