The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 35
It was a huge piece of fresh meat, and as I stared at it several more pieces rolled over the cliffs in different places.
Who acts: light, I · What happens: be, stare, roll · To what, where: huge piece, several more pieces, light, cliffs
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 (light, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 piece | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 piece | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 piece | det |
| 4 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 piece | amod |
| 5 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 meat | case |
| 7 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 meat | amod |
| 8 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 piece | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stared | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 stared | cc |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 stared | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 stared | nsubj |
| 13 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 piece | acl:relcl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 stared | obl |
| 16 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 pieces | amod |
| 17 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 pieces | amod |
| 18 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 stared | obj |
| 19 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 pieces | acl |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 cliffs | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 cliffs | det |
| 22 | cliffs | cliff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 rolled | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 places | case |
| 24 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 places | amod |
| 25 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 rolled | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 piece | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | light | a huge piece | of fresh meat | tree rules | |||
| 2 | stare | past | I | several more pieces | light | tree rules | |||
| 3 | roll | participle | several more pieces not said here | the cliffs | in different places | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme over cliff=Source in place=Trajectory |
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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