The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 32
Hesitating no longer we clambered upon our rafts and rowed with all our might out to sea.
What happens: hesitate, clamber, row · To what, where: rafts
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: 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 | Hesitating | hesitate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 clambered | nsubj |
| 2 | no | no | ADV | _ | 3 longer | advmod |
| 3 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 clambered | advmod |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 clambered | nsubj |
| 5 | clambered | clamber | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 rafts | case |
| 7 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 rafts | nmod:poss |
| 8 | rafts | raft | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 clambered | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 rowed | cc |
| 10 | rowed | row | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 clambered | conj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 sea | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 sea | det:predet |
| 13 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 sea | nmod:poss |
| 14 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 sea | aux |
| 15 | out | out | ADV | _ | 17 sea | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 sea | case |
| 17 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rowed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 clambered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hesitate | gerund | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | clamber | past | our rafts | long property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon raft=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | row | participle | with our sea | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=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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