The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 74

In one place I saw a tortoise which was twenty cubits long and as many broad, also a fish that was like a cow and had skin so thick that it was used to make shields.

Who acts: I, tortoise, fish · What happens: see, be, have, use, make · To what, where: tortoise, one place, skin, shields

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, tortoise, fish), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 place	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 place	nummod
3	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	obl
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 saw	nsubj
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tortoise	det
7	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	obj
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 long	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 long	cop
10	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 cubits	nummod
11	cubits	cubit	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 long	obl:unmarked
12	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tortoise	acl:relcl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 broad	cc
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 many	advmod
15	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 broad	amod
16	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 long	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 fish	punct
18	also	also	ADV	_	20 fish	advmod
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 fish	det
20	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	conj
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 cow	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 cow	cop
23	like	like	ADP	_	25 cow	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 cow	det
25	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fish	acl:relcl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 had	cc
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 saw	conj
28	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 had	obj
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 thick	advmod
30	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 had	xcomp
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 used	mark
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 used	nsubj:pass
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 used	aux:pass
34	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 thick	advcl
35	to	to	PART	_	36 make	mark
36	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 used	advcl
37	shields	shield	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 make	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	I	a tortoise	one place		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tortoise=Stimulus
2	is	past	a tortoise			twenty cubits obl:unmarked; long property	tree rules
3	be		a tortoise not said here				tree rules
4	is	past	a fish			like a cow	tree rules
5	have	past	I not said here	skin		thick property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient
6	use	past · passive		tortoise			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
7	make	to-infinitive		shields			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset shield=Product

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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