The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 76
Throwing themselves into the waves they surrounded our vessel.
What happens: throw, surround · To what, where: feet, waves
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: 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 | Throwing | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 surrounded | csubj |
| 2 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 1 Throwing | obj |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 waves | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 waves | det |
| 5 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 surrounded | obl |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 vessel | nmod:poss |
| 9 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 surrounded | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 surrounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | gerund | feet = foot | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme | |||||
| 2 | surround | participle · passive | feet = foot | the waves | 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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