The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 39
By this time my other companion and I were running for our lives to some place where we might hope to be safe from this new horror, and seeing a tall tree we climbed up into it, having first provided ourselves with a store of fruit off the surrounding bushes.
Who acts: other companion, we, seeing · What happens: run, hope, be, see, climb up, have · To what, where: new horror, tall tree, hunger, ourselves · 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 (other companion, we, seeing), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 running | obl |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 companion | nmod:poss |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 companion | amod |
| 6 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 running | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 I | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 companion | conj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 running | aux |
| 10 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 lives | case |
| 12 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 lives | nmod:poss |
| 13 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 running | obl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 place | case |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 place | det |
| 16 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 running | obl |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 hope | advmod |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 hope | nsubj |
| 19 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 hope | aux |
| 20 | hope | hope | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 place | acl:relcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 safe | mark |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 safe | cop |
| 23 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 hope | ccomp |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 horror | case |
| 25 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 horror | det |
| 26 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 horror | amod |
| 27 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 safe | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 provided | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 provided | cc |
| 30 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 42 provided | csubj |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 tree | det |
| 32 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 tree | amod |
| 33 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 seeing | obj |
| 34 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 climbed | nsubj |
| 35 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 tree | acl:relcl |
| 36 | up | up | ADV | _ | 35 climbed | advmod |
| 37 | into | into | ADP | _ | 38 it | case |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 climbed | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 having | punct |
| 40 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 seeing | conj |
| 41 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 40 having | advmod |
| 42 | provided | provide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 running | conj |
| 43 | ourselves | ourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 42 provided | obj |
| 44 | with | with | ADP | _ | 46 store | case |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 store | det |
| 46 | store | store | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 provided | obl |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 fruit | case |
| 48 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 store | nmod |
| 49 | off | off | ADP | _ | 52 bushes | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 bushes | det |
| 51 | surrounding | surrounding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 bushes | compound |
| 52 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 provided | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 running | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past · progressive | my other companion | time | for our lives; to some place result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to place=Result | |||
| 2 | hope | might | we | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | is not said to happen | to-infinitive | this new horror | safe property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | gerund | a tall tree | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | climb up | past | we | a tall tree not said here | hunger | tree rules | |||
| 6 | have | gerund | first property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | provide | past | seeing | ourselves | with a store of fruit; off the surrounding bushes | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent ourselves=Recipient with store=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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