The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 16
So saying he stamped upon the ground like one beside himself with misery and despair.
What happens: say, stamp · To what, where: ground · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 4 stamped | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 stamped | nsubj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stamped | nsubj |
| 4 | stamped | stamp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 ground | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ground | det |
| 7 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stamped | obl |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 one | case |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 stamped | obl |
| 10 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 11 himself | case |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 one | nmod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 misery | case |
| 13 | misery | misery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stamped | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 despair | cc |
| 15 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 misery | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stamped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | stamp | past | the ground | like one beside Sindbad; with misery and despair | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon ground=Destination |
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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