The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 85

I threw myself on the ground and rent my clothes and tore my hair with sorrow.

Who acts: I · What happens: throw, rent, tore · To what, where: myself, ground, clothes, hair

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), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 threw	nsubj
2	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 threw	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 ground	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ground	det
6	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 rent	cc
8	rent	rent	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 threw	conj
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 clothes	nmod:poss
10	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	8 rent	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tore	cc
12	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 threw	conj
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 hair	nmod:poss
14	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tore	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 sorrow	case
16	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tore	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	throw	past	I	myself	the ground		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent myself=Theme on ground=Destination
2	rent	infinitive	I not said here	my clothes			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme
3	tore	past	I not said here	my hair		with sorrow	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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