The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 59

Therefore when she descended, already insensible from terror, I was ready armed with a huge bone, one blow from which left her dead, and I secured the bread and water which gave me a hope of life.

Who acts: woman, I, one blow, bread, life · What happens: descend, be, leave, secure, give, hope · To what, where: dead, bread, hope, me

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 (woman, I, one blow, bread), 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	Therefore	therefore	ADV	_	4 descended	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 descended	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 descended	nsubj
4	descended	descend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 insensible	punct
6	already	already	ADV	_	7 insensible	advmod
7	insensible	insensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 descended	xcomp
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 terror	case
9	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 insensible	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 armed	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 armed	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 armed	cop
13	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 armed	amod
14	armed	armed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 descended	conj
15	with	with	ADP	_	18 bone	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 bone	det
17	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 bone	amod
18	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 armed	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 blow	punct
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 blow	nummod
21	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bone	appos
22	from	from	ADP	_	23 which	case
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 left	nsubj
24	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 blow	acl:relcl
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 dead	nmod:poss
26	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 left	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 secured	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 secured	cc
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 secured	nsubj
30	secured	secure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 descended	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 bread	det
32	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 secured	obj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 water	cc
34	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bread	conj
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 gave	nsubj
36	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 bread	acl:relcl
37	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 gave	iobj
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 hope	det
39	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 gave	obj
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 life	case
41	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 hope	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 descended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	descend	past	woman			insensible, therefore property	vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	I			with a huge bone; armed property	tree rules
3	leave	past	one blow	woman's dead			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dead=Theme
4	secure	past	I	the bread and water			vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition bread=Theme
5	give	past	the bread and water	a hope of life	me		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient hope=Theme
6	hope		life				nom hope «feeling intransitive»: of=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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