The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 2
So once more I was quite alone, and for a whole month I walked daily over the island, seeking for some chance of escape.
Who acts: I, escape · What happens: be, walk, seek, chance · To what, where: island
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, escape), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 15 walked | cc |
| 2 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 more | advmod |
| 3 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 alone | advmod |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 alone | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 alone | cop |
| 6 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 7 alone | advmod |
| 7 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 1 So | fixed |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 walked | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 walked | cc |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 month | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 month | det |
| 12 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 month | amod |
| 13 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 walked | obl |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 walked | nsubj |
| 15 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | daily | daily | ADV | _ | 15 walked | advmod |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 island | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 island | det |
| 19 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 walked | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 seeking | punct |
| 21 | seeking | seek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 walked | advcl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 chance | case |
| 23 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 chance | det |
| 24 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 seeking | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 escape | case |
| 26 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 chance | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | I | alone property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | walk | past | I | the island | month | daily property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over island=Trajectory | ||
| 3 | seek | gerund | I not said here | for some chance of escape | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for chance=Theme | ||||
| 4 | chance | escape | nom chance «state intransitive»: of=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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