The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 34

At last, overcome with weariness, I sat down upon a rock, but I had hardly closed my eyes when I was startled by something which fell to the ground with a thud close beside me.

Who acts: you, I · What happens: overcome, sit down, close, startle, fall · To what, where: last, rock, eyes, I

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 (you, 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 overcome	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 last	punct
4	overcome	overcome	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 weariness	case
6	weariness	weariness	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 overcome	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sat	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 sat	nsubj
9	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 overcome	advcl
10	down	down	ADV	_	9 sat	advmod
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 rock	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 rock	det
13	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sat	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 closed	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 closed	cc
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 closed	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 closed	aux
18	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	19 closed	advmod
19	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 sat	conj
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 eyes	nmod:poss
21	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 closed	obj
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 startled	advmod
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 startled	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 startled	aux:pass
25	startled	startle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 closed	advcl
26	by	by	ADP	_	27 something	case
27	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	25 startled	obl
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 fell	nsubj
29	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 something	acl:relcl
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 ground	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 ground	det
32	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 fell	obl
33	with	with	ADP	_	35 thud	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 thud	det
35	thud	thud	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 fell	obl
36	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 thud	amod
37	beside	beside	ADP	_	38 me	case
38	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 close	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 overcome	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	overcome	imperative	you not said here		last	with weariness	vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
2	sit down	past	I		a rock	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon rock=Location
3	close	past · perfect	I	my eyes		hardly property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
4	startle	past · passive		I		by something	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
5	fall	past				to the ground; with a thud	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=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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