The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 1
Turning away from the sea we wandered miserably inland, finding as we went various herbs and fruits which we ate, feeling that we might as well live as long as possible though we had no hope of escape.
Who acts: we, escape · What happens: turn away, wander, find, go, eat, feel · To what, where: sea, various herbs, hope · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, escape), 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 | Turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 Turning | advmod |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 sea | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sea | det |
| 5 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Turning | obl |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 wandered | nsubj |
| 7 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sea | acl:relcl |
| 8 | miserably | miserably | ADV | _ | 9 inland | advmod |
| 9 | inland | inland | ADV | _ | 7 wandered | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 finding | punct |
| 11 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Turning | conj |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 went | mark |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 finding | ccomp |
| 15 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 herbs | amod |
| 16 | herbs | herb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 went | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 fruits | cc |
| 18 | fruits | fruit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 herbs | conj |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 ate | obj |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 ate | nsubj |
| 21 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 herbs | acl:relcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 feeling | punct |
| 23 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 went | conj |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 live | mark |
| 25 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 live | nsubj |
| 26 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 live | aux |
| 27 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 29 live | advmod |
| 28 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 as | fixed |
| 29 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 feeling | advcl |
| 30 | as | as | ADV | _ | 31 long | advmod |
| 31 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 live | advmod |
| 32 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 possible | mark |
| 33 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 long | advcl |
| 34 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 36 had | mark |
| 35 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 had | nsubj |
| 36 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 feeling | advcl |
| 37 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 38 hope | det |
| 38 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 had | obj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 escape | case |
| 40 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 hope | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Turning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn away | gerund | the sea | away property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from sea=Source | ||||
| 2 | wander | past | we | the sea not said here | inland property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sea=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | find | gerund | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | go | past | we | various herbs and fruits | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location herb=Theme | ||||
| 5 | eat | past | we | various herbs and fruits | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient | ||||
| 6 | feel | gerund | we not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | live | might | we | long property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | have | past | we | no hope of escape | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hope=Patient | ||||
| 9 | hope | escape | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: of=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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