The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 51

By that time I was very hungry, but after some searching I came upon some eatable herbs, and a spring of clear water, and much refreshed I set out to explore the island.

Who acts: I · What happens: be, come, refresh, set out, explore · To what, where: eatable herbs, island

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 (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	By	by	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hungry	obl
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 hungry	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hungry	cop
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 hungry	advmod
7	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 came	cc
10	after	after	ADP	_	12 searching	case
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 searching	det
12	searching	searching	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	obl
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 came	nsubj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hungry	parataxis
15	upon	upon	ADP	_	18 herbs	case
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 herbs	det
17	eatable	eatable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 herbs	amod
18	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 came	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 spring	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 spring	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 spring	det
22	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 water	case
24	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 water	amod
25	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 spring	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 refreshed	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 refreshed	cc
28	much	much	ADV	_	29 refreshed	advmod
29	refreshed	refresh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 came	conj
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 set	nsubj
31	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 refreshed	ccomp
32	out	out	ADP	_	31 set	compound:prt
33	to	to	PART	_	34 explore	mark
34	explore	explore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 set	advcl
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 island	det
36	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 explore	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 hungry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	I			time	hungry property	tree rules
2	come	past	I		some eatable herbs	after some searching; spring		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon herb=Location
3	refresh	past	I not said here					tree rules
4	set out	past	I					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	explore	to-infinitive	I not said here	the island				vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent island=Location

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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