The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 5

Overcome with despair we sank trembling to the ground, and lay there without speech or motion.

Who acts: you, we · What happens: overcome, sink, tremble, lie · To what, where: despair

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 (you, 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	Overcome	overcome	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	3 despair	case
3	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Overcome	obl
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 sank	nsubj
5	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 despair	acl:relcl
6	trembling	tremble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 sank	xcomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 ground	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ground	det
9	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 trembling	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lay	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 lay	cc
12	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Overcome	parataxis
13	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 lay	advmod
14	without	without	ADP	_	15 speech	case
15	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lay	obl
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 motion	cc
17	motion	motion	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 speech	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Overcome	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	overcome	imperative	you not said here			with despair	vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
2	sink	past	we	despair not said here			tree rules
3	tremble	gerund	we not said here			to the ground	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	lie	past			there	without speech or motion	vn assuming_position-50 «NP 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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