The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 83
Half-stunned as I was with all that had happened to me, I rose to my feet, thinking as I did so of what had befallen the ten young men, and watching the horse which was soaring into the clouds.
Who acts: I, horse · What happens: stun, be, rise, think, do, befall · To what, where: me, feet, ten young men, horse, clouds · Speech: someone speaks here
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, horse), 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 | Half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 3 stunned | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Half | punct |
| 3 | stunned | stun | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 happened | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 happened | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 happened | cop |
| 7 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 11 happened | mark |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 happened | det:predet |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 happened | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 happened | aux |
| 11 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 stunned | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 me | case |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 happened | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rose | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 rose | nsubj |
| 16 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stunned | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 feet | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 feet | nmod:poss |
| 19 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 rose | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 thinking | punct |
| 21 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 rose | advcl |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 did | mark |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 did | nsubj |
| 24 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 thinking | ccomp |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 what | advmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 what | case |
| 27 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 24 did | obj |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 befallen | aux |
| 29 | befallen | befall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 what | acl:relcl |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 men | det |
| 31 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 men | nummod |
| 32 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 men | amod |
| 33 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 befallen | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 watching | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 watching | cc |
| 36 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 stunned | advcl |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 horse | det |
| 38 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 watching | obj |
| 39 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 soaring | nsubj |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 soaring | aux |
| 41 | soaring | soar | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 38 horse | acl:relcl |
| 42 | into | into | ADP | _ | 44 clouds | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 clouds | det |
| 44 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 soaring | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stunned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stun | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | is | past · perfect | I | me | happen property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | rise | past | I | my feet | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to foot=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | gerund | I not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | do | past | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | befall | past · perfect | the ten young men | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | watch | gerund | the horse | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | |||||
| 8 | soar | past · progressive | the horse | the clouds | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into cloud=Trajectory |
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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