The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 65
I hastily surveyed my surroundings, and saw that I was safe from all pursuit from the town.
Who acts: I · What happens: survey, see, be · To what, where: surroundings, pursuit · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | 3 surveyed | nsubj |
| 2 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 3 surveyed | advmod |
| 3 | surveyed | survey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 surroundings | nmod:poss |
| 5 | surroundings | surroundings | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 3 surveyed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 saw | cc |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 surveyed | conj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 safe | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 safe | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 safe | cop |
| 12 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 saw | ccomp |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 pursuit | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 pursuit | det |
| 15 | pursuit | pursuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 safe | obl |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 town | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 town | det |
| 18 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pursuit | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 surveyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | survey | past | I | my surroundings | hastily property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surroundings=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | past | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past | I | all pursuit from the town | safe property | tree rules |
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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