The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 91

Laying him down at the foot of the tree in which I had taken shelter, they did their best to recover him, but it took a long while.

Who acts: trees, I, it · What happens: lay down, take, do, recover · To what, where: instant, foot, shelter, tree

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 (trees, I, it), 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	Laying	lay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 did	advcl
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Laying	obj
3	down	down	ADP	_	1 Laying	compound:prt
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 foot	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 foot	det
6	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Laying	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 tree	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tree	det
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 foot	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 which	case
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 taken	obl
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 taken	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 taken	aux
14	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 tree	acl:relcl
15	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 taken	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Laying	punct
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 did	nsubj
18	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 best	nmod:poss
20	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 did	parataxis
21	to	to	PART	_	22 recover	mark
22	recover	recover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 best	csubj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 recover	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 took	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 took	cc
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 took	nsubj
27	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 did	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 while	det
29	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 while	amod
30	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 took	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	lay down	gerund	trees = tree not said here	instant	the foot of the tree		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme at foot=Destination
2	take	past · perfect	I	shelter	the tree		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent shelter=Value in which=Location
3	do	past	trees = tree				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	recover	to-infinitive		instant			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	take	past	it			while	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: 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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