The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 5
I watched a little longer: there was no doubt about it, and soon there was only a tiny stream for me to cross.
Who acts: I, doubt, tiny stream, me · What happens: watch, be, cross
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, doubt, tiny stream, me), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg128:1020): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
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 watched | nsubj |
| 2 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 little | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 longer | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 watched | advmod |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 was | punct |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 was | expl |
| 8 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 watched | parataxis |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 doubt | det |
| 10 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 was | nsubj |
| 11 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 doubt | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 was | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 was | cc |
| 15 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 was | advmod |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 was | expl |
| 17 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 was | conj |
| 18 | only | only | ADV | _ | 21 stream | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 stream | det |
| 20 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 stream | amod |
| 21 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 was | nsubj |
| 22 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 25 cross | mark |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 cross | nsubj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 cross | mark |
| 25 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 stream | acl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 watched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past | I | long property | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | be | past | no doubt about thought | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | be | past | a tiny stream | there | soon property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | cross | to-infinitive | me | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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