The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 1
For seven days I hurried on, resting only when the darkness stopped me, and living chiefly upon cocoanuts, which afforded me both meat and drink, and on the eighth day I reached the seashore and saw a party of white men gathering pepper, which grew abundantly all about.
Who acts: I, darkness, cocoanuts, gathering pepper · What happens: hurry on, rest, stop, live, afford, reach · To what, where: me, cocoanuts, seashore, party
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, darkness, cocoanuts, gathering pepper), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 days | case |
| 2 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 days | nummod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hurried | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 hurried | nsubj |
| 5 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 hurried | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 resting | punct |
| 8 | resting | rest | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 hurried | advcl |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 when | advmod |
| 10 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 13 stopped | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 darkness | det |
| 12 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stopped | nsubj |
| 13 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 resting | advcl |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 stopped | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 living | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 living | cc |
| 17 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 hurried | advcl |
| 18 | chiefly | chiefly | ADV | _ | 17 living | advmod |
| 19 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 20 cocoanuts | case |
| 20 | cocoanuts | cocoanut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 living | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 afforded | punct |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 afforded | nsubj |
| 23 | afforded | afford | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 cocoanuts | acl:relcl |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 afforded | obj |
| 25 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 meat | det |
| 26 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 afforded | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 drink | cc |
| 28 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 meat | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 reached | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 reached | cc |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 day | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 day | det |
| 33 | eighth | eighth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 day | amod |
| 34 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 reached | obl |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 reached | nsubj |
| 36 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hurried | parataxis |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 seashore | det |
| 38 | seashore | seashore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 reached | obj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 saw | cc |
| 40 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 reached | conj |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 party | det |
| 42 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 saw | obj |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 men | case |
| 44 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 men | amod |
| 45 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 party | nmod |
| 46 | gathering | gather | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 47 pepper | amod |
| 47 | pepper | pepper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 men | conj |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 grew | punct |
| 49 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 50 grew | nsubj |
| 50 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 pepper | acl:relcl |
| 51 | abundantly | abundantly | ADV | _ | 50 grew | advmod |
| 52 | all | all | ADV | _ | 53 about | advmod |
| 53 | about | about | ADV | _ | 50 grew | advmod |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hurried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurry on | past | I | day | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | rest | gerund | I not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | stop | past | the darkness | me | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality i=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | live | gerund | I not said here | cocoanuts | chiefly property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon cocoanut=Location | |||
| 5 | afford | past | cocoanuts | me | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | reach | past | I | the seashore | day | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent seashore=Theme | |||
| 7 | see | past | I not said here | a party of white men and gathering pepper | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer party=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | gather | gerund | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 9 | grow | past | gathering pepper | about, abundantly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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