The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 50

The cliffs were high and steep, but luckily for me some tree-roots protruded in places, and by their aid I climbed up at last, and stretched myself upon the turf at the top, where I lay, more dead than alive, till the sun was high in the heavens.

Who acts: cliffs, I, sun · What happens: be, protrude, climb up, stretch, lay · To what, where: tree roots, places, last, myself, top, heavens

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: who acts (cliffs, I, sun), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cliffs	det
2	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 high	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 high	cop
4	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 steep	cc
6	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 high	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 me	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 me	cc
9	luckily	luckily	ADV	_	11 me	advmod
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 me	case
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 high	advcl
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 roots	det
13	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 roots	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 tree	punct
15	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 me	conj
16	protruded	protrude	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 roots	acl
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 places	case
18	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 protruded	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 climbed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 climbed	cc
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 aid	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 aid	nmod:poss
23	aid	aid	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 climbed	obl
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 climbed	nsubj
25	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 high	parataxis
26	up	up	ADP	_	25 climbed	compound:prt
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 last	case
28	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 climbed	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 stretched	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 stretched	cc
31	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 climbed	conj
32	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	31 stretched	obj
33	upon	upon	ADP	_	35 turf	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 turf	det
35	turf	turf	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 stretched	obl
36	at	at	ADP	_	38 top	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 top	det
38	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 stretched	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 lay	punct
40	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	42 lay	advmod
41	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 lay	nsubj
42	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 stretched	parataxis
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 dead	punct
44	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	45 dead	amod
45	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 lay	advcl
46	than	than	ADP	_	47 alive	case
47	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 dead	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 high	punct
49	till	till	SCONJ	_	53 high	mark
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 sun	det
51	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 high	nsubj
52	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 high	cop
53	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 lay	conj
54	in	in	ADP	_	56 heavens	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 heavens	det
56	heavens	heaven	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 high	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 high	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the cliffs			high property	tree rules
2	be		the cliffs not said here				tree rules
3	protrude	participle		some tree roots not said here	places		vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location
4	climb up	past	I		last	by cliffs's aid	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by aid=Trajectory
5	stretch	past	I not said here	myself	the top	upon the turf	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent myself=Patient
6	lay	present	I				vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	is	past	the sun		the heavens	high property	tree rules

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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