The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 43

I then chose the piece of meat which seemed most suited to my purpose, and with the aid of my turban bound it firmly to my back; this done I laid down upon my face and awaited the coming of the eagles.

Who acts: I, meat, my · What happens: choose, seem, suit, bind, do, lay down · To what, where: piece, this, face

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, meat, my), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 chose	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 chose	advmod
3	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 piece	det
5	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chose	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 meat	case
7	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 piece	nmod
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 seemed	nsubj
9	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 meat	acl:relcl
10	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	11 suited	advmod
11	suited	suit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 seemed	xcomp
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 purpose	case
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 purpose	nmod:poss
14	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 suited	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 bound	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 bound	cc
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 aid	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 aid	det
19	aid	aid	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bound	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 turban	case
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 turban	nmod:poss
22	turban	turban	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 aid	nmod
23	bound	bind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 chose	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 bound	obj
25	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	23 bound	advmod
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 back	case
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 back	nmod:poss
28	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bound	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 done	punct
30	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 done	nsubj:pass
31	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 laid	advcl
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 laid	nsubj
33	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 chose	conj
34	down	down	ADV	_	33 laid	advmod
35	upon	upon	ADP	_	37 face	case
36	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 face	nmod:poss
37	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 laid	obl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 awaited	cc
39	awaited	await	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 chose	conj
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 coming	det
41	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 awaited	advcl
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 eagles	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 eagles	det
44	eagles	eagle	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 coming	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 chose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	past	I	the piece of meat		then		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme
2	seem	past	meat					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	suit	participle	meat not said here				to my purpose	tree rules
4	bind	past	I not said here	piece			with the aid of my turban; to my back; firmly property	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent it=Patient with aid=Co-Patient
5	do	participle · passive		this				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
6	lay down	past	I		my face		down property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon face=Destination
7	await	past	I not said here					tree rules
8	come	gerund	I not said here				of the eagles	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of eagle=Initial_Location
9	purpose		my					nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent

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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