The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 9
At this terrible sight our senses left us and we lay like dead men.
Who acts: senses, we · What happens: leave, lay · To what, where: us, terrible sight
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 (senses, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 sight | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 sight | det |
| 3 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sight | amod |
| 4 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 left | obl |
| 5 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 senses | nmod:poss |
| 6 | senses | sens | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 left | nsubj |
| 7 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 left | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 lay | cc |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 lay | nsubj |
| 11 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 left | conj |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 men | case |
| 13 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 men | amod |
| 14 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 lay | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | our senses | us | this terrible sight | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent we=Theme at sight=Location | |||
| 2 | lay | present | we | like dead men | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: 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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