The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 79
Throwing himself upon my neck he exclaimed, "Heaven be praised that you have escaped from so great a danger.
Who acts: captain, you · What happens: throw, exclaim, praise, escape · To what, where: captain, neck, Heaven · 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: who acts (captain, you), 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 | Throwing | throw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 praised | advcl |
| 2 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 1 Throwing | obj |
| 3 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 neck | case |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 neck | nmod:poss |
| 5 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Throwing | obl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 7 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 neck | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Throwing | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Heaven | punct |
| 10 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 praised | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 praised | aux:pass |
| 12 | praised | praise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 escaped | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 escaped | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 escaped | aux |
| 16 | escaped | escape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 praised | advcl |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 great | case |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 great | advmod |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 escaped | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 danger | det |
| 21 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 great | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 praised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | gerund | captain | my neck | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme upon neck=Destination | ||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | captain | my neck not said here | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent neck=Topic | ||||
| 3 | praise in a quote | infinitive · passive | Heaven | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | escape in a quote | present · perfect | you | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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