The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 12
How long I slept I know not, but when I opened my eyes and started to my feet I perceived with horror that I was alone and that the ship was gone.
Who acts: I, that, ship · What happens: sleep, not know, open, start, perceive, be · To what, where: eyes
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. 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, ship), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 slept | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 slept | nsubj |
| 4 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 know | nsubj |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 slept | ccomp |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 know | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 perceived | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 perceived | cc |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 opened | advmod |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 opened | nsubj |
| 12 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 perceived | advcl |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 opened | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 started | cc |
| 16 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 opened | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 feet | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 feet | nmod:poss |
| 19 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 started | obl |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 perceived | nsubj |
| 21 | perceived | perceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 slept | conj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 horror | case |
| 23 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 perceived | obl |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 alone | nsubj |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 alone | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 alone | cop |
| 27 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 23 horror | conj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 gone | cc |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 gone | mark |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 ship | det |
| 31 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 gone | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 gone | cop |
| 33 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 alone | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 slept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | past | I | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | open | past | I | my eyes | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | ||||
| 4 | start | past | I not said here | to my feet | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | perceive | past | I | with horror | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | is | past | that | alone property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | is | past | the ship | gone 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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