The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 63

I followed it for what seemed to me many miles, and at last saw before me a glimmer of light which grew clearer every moment until I emerged upon the sea shore with a joy which I cannot describe.

Who acts: I, glimmer, light · What happens: follow, seem, grow, emerge, not describe, glimmer · To what, where: way, many miles, me, last saw, sea shore, joy

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, glimmer, light), 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 followed	nsubj
2	followed	follow	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 followed	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 what	case
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 followed	obl
6	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 what	acl:relcl
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 me	case
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 seemed	obl
9	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 miles	amod
10	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 seemed	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 grew	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 grew	cc
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 saw	case
14	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 saw	amod
15	saw	saw	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 grew	obl
16	before	before	ADP	_	17 me	case
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 saw	nmod
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 glimmer	det
19	glimmer	glimmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 grew	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 light	case
21	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 glimmer	nmod
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 grew	nsubj
23	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 followed	conj
24	clearer	clear	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 grew	xcomp
25	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	26 moment	det
26	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 clearer	obl:unmarked
27	until	until	SCONJ	_	29 emerged	mark
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 emerged	nsubj
29	emerged	emerge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 grew	advcl
30	upon	upon	ADP	_	33 shore	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 shore	det
32	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 shore	compound
33	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 emerged	obl
34	with	with	ADP	_	36 joy	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 joy	det
36	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 shore	nmod
37	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 describe	obj
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 describe	nsubj
39	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 describe	aux
40	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 describe	advmod
41	describe	describe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 joy	acl:relcl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 followed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	past	I	way				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent it=Theme for what=Attribute
2	seem	past		many miles	me			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mile=Attribute
3	grow	past	a glimmer of light			last saw before me	clear property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at saw=Location
4	emerge	past	I			the sea shore with a joy		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon shore=Location
5	not describe	can	I	a joy				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent which=Theme
6	glimmer		light					nom glimmer «event 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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