The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 23

Taking off my turban I bound myself securely to it with the linen in the hope that the roc, when it took flight next morning, would bear me away with it from the desolate island.

Who acts: I, it, roc · What happens: take off, bound, take, bear, desolate · To what, where: turban, hope, myself, flight, me

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, it, roc), 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	Taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 Taking	compound:prt
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 turban	nmod:poss
4	turban	turban	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Taking	obj
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 bound	nsubj
6	bound	bound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Taking	ccomp
7	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 bound	obj
8	securely	securely	ADV	_	1 Taking	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 securely	obl
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 linen	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 linen	det
13	linen	linen	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Taking	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 hope	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hope	det
16	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Taking	obl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 bear	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 roc	det
19	roc	roc	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bear	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 took	punct
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 took	advmod
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 took	nsubj
23	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 roc	acl:relcl
24	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 took	obj
25	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 morning	amod
26	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 took	obl:unmarked
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 roc	punct
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 bear	aux
29	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Taking	advcl
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 bear	obj
31	away	away	ADV	_	1 Taking	advmod
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Taking	obl
34	from	from	ADP	_	37 island	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 island	det
36	desolate	desolate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 island	compound
37	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Taking	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Taking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take off	gerund		my turban	the hope		with the linen; with bird; from the desolate island; away, securely property	tree rules
2	bound	present	I	myself				vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location myself=Theme
3	take	past	it	flight		morning		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flight=Theme
4	bear	would	the roc	me				vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
5	desolate	infinitive						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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