The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 48

There seemed to be no one but myself on the island, which was covered with fruit trees and watered with streams, but seemed a long distance from the mainland which I hoped to reach.

Who acts: mainland · What happens: seem, be, cover, water, hope, reach · To what, where: island, one, long distance, mainland

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 (mainland), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 seemed	expl
2	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	6 one	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 one	cop
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 one	det
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seemed	xcomp
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 myself	cc
8	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 one	conj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 island	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 island	det
11	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seemed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 covered	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 covered	nsubj:pass
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 covered	aux:pass
15	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 island	acl:relcl
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 trees	case
17	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 trees	compound
18	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 covered	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 watered	cc
20	watered	water	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seemed	conj
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 streams	case
22	streams	stream	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 watered	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 seemed	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 seemed	cc
25	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seemed	parataxis
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 distance	det
27	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 distance	amod
28	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 seemed	obj
29	from	from	ADP	_	31 mainland	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 mainland	det
31	mainland	mainland	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 distance	nmod
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 hoped	nsubj
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 hoped	nsubj
34	hoped	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 mainland	acl:relcl
35	to	to	PART	_	36 reach	mark
36	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 hoped	xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seem	past			the island; there		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	is a	to-infinitive		no one			tree rules
3	cover	past · passive		the island		with fruit trees	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with tree=Theme
4	water	past				with streams	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with stream=Theme
5	seem	past		a long distance	the mainland		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme distance=Attribute
6	hope	past	the mainland				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	reach not said to happen	to-infinitive	the mainland not said here				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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