The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 64
By that time the wind had freshened, and it was impossible to put back for him."
What happens: freshen, be, put back · To what, where: wind
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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 freshened | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wind | det |
| 5 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 freshened | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 freshened | aux |
| 7 | freshened | freshen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 impossible | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 impossible | cc |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 impossible | expl |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 impossible | cop |
| 12 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 freshened | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 put | mark |
| 14 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 impossible | csubj |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 put | advmod |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 put | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 freshened | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 freshened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | freshen | past · perfect · passive | the wind | time | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | impossible property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | put back | to-infinitive | for captain | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: 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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