The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 76

Instead of being warned by this accident, directly I came to myself I went for a few moments into the air to shake of the effects of the perfume, and then entered boldly.

Who acts: accident, I · What happens: warn, come, go, shake, enter, effect · To what, where: myself, air, perfume

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 (accident, 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	Instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	4 warned	mark
2	of	of	ADP	_	1 Instead	fixed
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 warned	aux:pass
4	warned	warn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 accident	case
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 accident	det
7	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 warned	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct
9	directly	directly	ADV	_	11 came	advmod
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 warned	parataxis
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 myself	case
13	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 came	obl
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 went	nsubj
15	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 came	conj
16	for	for	ADP	_	19 moments	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 moments	det
18	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 moments	amod
19	moments	moment	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 went	obl
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 air	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 air	det
22	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 went	obl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 shake	mark
24	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 went	advcl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 effects	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 effects	det
27	effects	effect	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 shake	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 perfume	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 perfume	det
30	perfume	perfume	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 effects	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 entered	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 entered	cc
33	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 entered	advmod
34	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 came	conj
35	boldly	boldly	ADV	Degree=Pos	34 entered	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 warned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	gerund · passive	this accident						vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
2	come	past	I		myself			directly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to myself=Initial_Location
3	go	past	I			the air	moment		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into air=Initial_Location
4	shake	to-infinitive	I not said here					of the effects of the perfume	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent of effect=Trajectory
5	enter	past	I not said here				then	boldly property	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	effect			the perfume					nom effect «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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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