The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 62
I pursued it as fast as I could, and found myself in a narrow crack among the rocks, along which I was just able to force my way.
Who acts: I · What happens: pursue, find, be, force · To what, where: form, myself, narrow crack, way
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), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 pursued | nsubj |
| 2 | pursued | pursue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 pursued | obj |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 fast | advmod |
| 5 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 pursued | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 could | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 could | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 fast | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 found | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 found | cc |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 pursued | conj |
| 12 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 found | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 crack | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 crack | det |
| 15 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 crack | amod |
| 16 | crack | crack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 found | obl |
| 17 | among | among | ADP | _ | 19 rocks | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 rocks | det |
| 19 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 found | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 able | punct |
| 21 | along | along | ADP | _ | 22 which | case |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 able | obl |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 able | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 able | cop |
| 25 | just | just | ADV | _ | 26 able | advmod |
| 26 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 rocks | conj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 force | mark |
| 28 | force | force | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 able | xcomp |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 way | nmod:poss |
| 30 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 force | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pursued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pursue | past | I | form | fast property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | find | past | I not said here | myself | a narrow crack | among the rocks | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Topic | ||
| 3 | is | past | I | along the rocks; able property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | force | to-infinitive | I not said here | my way | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Recipient |
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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