The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 53
Almost before I reached the bottom the stone was rolled into its place above my head, and I was left to my fate.
Who acts: I, my · What happens: reach, roll, leave, fate · To what, where: bottom, stone, place, I, fate
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, my), 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 | Almost | almost | ADV | _ | 4 reached | advmod |
| 2 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 4 reached | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bottom | det |
| 6 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stone | det |
| 8 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rolled | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 rolled | aux:pass |
| 10 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 reached | parataxis |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 place | case |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 place | nmod:poss |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rolled | obl |
| 14 | above | above | ADP | _ | 16 head | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 head | nmod:poss |
| 16 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 place | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 left | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 left | cc |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 left | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 left | aux:pass |
| 21 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 reached | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 fate | case |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 fate | nmod:poss |
| 24 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 left | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | I | the bottom | almost property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent bottom=Theme | |||
| 2 | roll | past · passive | the stone | stone's place above my head | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into place=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | leave | past · passive | I | my fate | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to fate=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | fate | my | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=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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