The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 45

At last my strength began to fail, and I gave myself up for lost, when the wind suddenly rose, and a huge wave cast me on a flat shore.

Who acts: I, wind, huge wave · What happens: begin, fail, give up, lose, rise, cast · To what, where: last strength, myself, me, flat shore

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, wind, huge wave), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 strength	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 strength	amod
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 strength	nmod:poss
4	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 began	obl
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 fail	mark
7	fail	fail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 began	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 gave	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 gave	cc
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 gave	nsubj
11	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 began	parataxis
12	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 gave	iobj
13	up	up	ADP	_	11 gave	compound:prt
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 lost	mark
15	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 gave	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 rose	punct
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 rose	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 wind	det
19	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rose	nsubj
20	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	21 rose	advmod
21	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 gave	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 cast	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 cast	cc
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 wave	det
25	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 wave	amod
26	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cast	nsubj
27	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 began	conj
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 cast	obj
29	on	on	ADP	_	32 shore	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 shore	det
31	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 shore	amod
32	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cast	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past				my last strength		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	fail	to-infinitive						vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	give up	past	I		myself			vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Source
4	lose	participle	I not said here					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	rise	past	the wind				suddenly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	cast	past	a huge wave	me		a flat shore		vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent i=Theme on shore=Destination

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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