The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 87
Scarcely had I finished when, looking out to sea, I saw the vessel heading for the island, and, feeling that it would be useless for me to protest my innocence, I again concealed myself among the branches of a tree that grew near by.
Who acts: Scarcely, I, vessel, stone, me, tree · What happens: have, finish, look out, see, head, feel · To what, where: vessel, innocence, myself, branches
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 (Scarcely, I, vessel, stone), 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 | Scarcely | Scarcely | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 finished | nsubj |
| 4 | finished | finish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | ccomp |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 looking | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 looking | punct |
| 7 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 finished | advcl |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 looking | compound:prt |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 sea | case |
| 10 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 looking | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 saw | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 saw | nsubj |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 vessel | det |
| 15 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 saw | obj |
| 16 | heading | head | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 vessel | acl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 island | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 island | det |
| 19 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 heading | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 concealed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 concealed | cc |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 feeling | punct |
| 23 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 38 concealed | advcl |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 useless | mark |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 useless | nsubj |
| 26 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 useless | aux |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 useless | cop |
| 28 | useless | useless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 feeling | ccomp |
| 29 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 32 protest | mark |
| 30 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 protest | nsubj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 protest | mark |
| 32 | protest | protest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 useless | advcl |
| 33 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 innocence | nmod:poss |
| 34 | innocence | innocence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 protest | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 feeling | punct |
| 36 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 concealed | nsubj |
| 37 | again | again | ADV | _ | 38 concealed | advmod |
| 38 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 39 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 38 concealed | obj |
| 40 | among | among | ADP | _ | 42 branches | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 branches | det |
| 42 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 concealed | obl |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 tree | case |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 tree | det |
| 45 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 branches | nmod |
| 46 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 47 grew | nsubj |
| 47 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 tree | acl:relcl |
| 48 | near | near | ADV | _ | 47 grew | advmod |
| 49 | by | by | ADP | _ | 48 near | fixed |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Scarcely | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | finish | past | I | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | look out | gerund | I not said here | to sea | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | see | past | I | the vessel | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vessel=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | head | gerund | the vessel not said here | for the island | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | feel | gerund | I not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | is | would | stone | useless property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | protest speech: disagree | to-infinitive | me | my innocence | vn rebel-71.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent innocence=Topic | ||||
| 9 | conceal | past | I | myself | the branches of a tree | again | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent myself=Patient among branch=Location | ||
| 10 | grow | past | a tree | near property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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