The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 29

As for us, when he was gone we made haste to leave the fatal castle, and, stationing ourselves beside our rafts, we waited to see what would happen.

Who acts: us, we · What happens: be, haste, leave, station, wait, see · To what, where: fatal castle, ourselves, rafts · 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 (us, we), 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	As	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	3 us	case
2	for	for	ADP	_	1 As	fixed
3	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 gone	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 gone	punct
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 gone	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gone	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 gone	cop
8	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 haste	nsubj
10	made	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 haste	aux
11	haste	haste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 gone	ccomp
12	to	to	PART	_	13 leave	mark
13	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 haste	xcomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 castle	det
15	fatal	fatal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 castle	amod
16	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 leave	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 waited	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 waited	cc
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 stationing	punct
20	stationing	station	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 waited	ccomp
21	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 stationing	obj
22	beside	beside	ADP	_	24 rafts	case
23	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 rafts	nmod:poss
24	rafts	raft	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 stationing	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 stationing	punct
26	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 waited	nsubj
27	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 haste	advcl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 see	mark
29	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 waited	xcomp
30	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	32 happen	nsubj
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 happen	aux
32	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 see	ccomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	us			gone property	tree rules
2	haste	may	we				tree rules
3	leave	to-infinitive	we not said here	the fatal castle			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Theme
4	station	gerund	we not said here	ourselves	our rafts		vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ourselves=Theme beside raft=Destination
5	wait	past	we				tree rules
6	see	to-infinitive	we not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	happen	would					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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