The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 60

However, I saw nothing strange upon my voyage, saving some fish that were full two hundred cubits long, but were fortunately more in dread of us than even we were of them, and fled from us if we did but strike upon a board to frighten them.

Who acts: I, that, we, my · What happens: see, save, be, flee, do, strike · To what, where: nothing, fish, dread, board, us

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, that, we, my), 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	However	however	ADV	_	4 saw	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 saw	obj
6	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 nothing	amod
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 voyage	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 voyage	nmod:poss
9	voyage	voyage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 saving	punct
11	saving	save	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 saw	advcl
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 fish	det
13	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 saving	obj
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 full	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 full	cop
16	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 fish	amod
17	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 hundred	compound
18	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 cubits	nummod
19	cubits	cubit	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 long	obl:unmarked
20	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 full	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 more	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 more	cc
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 more	cop
24	fortunately	fortunately	ADV	_	25 more	advmod
25	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 saw	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 dread	case
27	dread	dread	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 more	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 us	case
29	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 dread	nmod
30	than	than	ADP	_	35 them	case
31	even	even	ADV	_	35 them	advmod
32	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 them	nsubj
33	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 them	cop
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 them	case
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 more	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 fled	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 fled	cc
38	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	parataxis
39	from	from	ADP	_	40 us	case
40	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 fled	obl
41	if	if	SCONJ	_	43 did	mark
42	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 did	nsubj
43	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 fled	advcl
44	but	but	CCONJ	_	45 strike	cc
45	strike	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 fled	conj
46	upon	upon	ADP	_	48 board	case
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 board	det
48	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 strike	obl
49	to	to	PART	_	50 frighten	mark
50	frighten	frighten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 strike	advcl
51	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 frighten	obj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	I	nothing		upon my voyage; however property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
2	save	gerund	I not said here	some fish			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme
3	is	past	that			full property	tree rules
4	is	past			dread of us	fortunately, more property	tree rules
5	is	past	we			than cubits = cubit	tree rules
6	flee	past				from us	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from we=Initial_Location
7	do a condition, not said to happen	past	we				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	strike	infinitive			a board		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon board=Location
9	frighten	to-infinitive		fish			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer
10	voyage		my				nom voyage «act transitive»: poss=agent
11	dread			us			nom dread «feeling 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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