The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 45

As for me I was more dead than alive!

Who acts: I · What happens: be

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 (I), 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 me	case
2	for	for	ADP	_	1 As	fixed
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 dead	obl
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 dead	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dead	cop
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 dead	amod
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	than	than	ADP	_	9 alive	case
9	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dead	obl
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 dead	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	I					as me; than alive; dead property	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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