The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 25

As soon as the dawn appeared the bird rose into the air carrying me up and up till I could no longer see the earth, and then suddenly it descended so swiftly that I almost lost consciousness.

Who acts: dawn, bird, I · What happens: appear, rise, carry up, see, descend, lose · To what, where: air, me, earth, consciousness

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 (dawn, bird, 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 rose	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 appeared	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dawn	det
5	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 appeared	nsubj
6	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 rose	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bird	det
8	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rose	nsubj
9	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 air	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 air	det
12	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rose	obl
13	carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 rose	xcomp
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 carrying	obj
15	up	up	ADP	_	13 carrying	compound:prt
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 up	cc
17	up	up	ADV	_	15 up	conj
18	till	till	SCONJ	_	23 see	mark
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 see	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 see	aux
21	no	no	ADV	_	22 longer	advmod
22	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 see	advmod
23	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 carrying	advcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 earth	det
25	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 see	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 descended	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 descended	cc
28	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 descended	advmod
29	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	31 descended	advmod
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 descended	nsubj
31	descended	descend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 rose	conj
32	so	so	ADV	_	33 swiftly	advmod
33	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	_	31 descended	advmod
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 lost	mark
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 lost	nsubj
36	almost	almost	ADV	_	37 lost	advmod
37	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 descended	advcl
38	consciousness	consciousness	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 lost	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appear	past	the dawn					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	rise	past	the bird		the air		soon property	tree rules
3	carry up	gerund	the bird not said here	me				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
4	see	could	I	the earth			long property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer earth=Stimulus
5	descend	past	bird			then	suddenly, swiftly property	vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	lose	past	I	consciousness			almost property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consciousness=Eventuality

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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