The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 84

We determined, however, to explore it, but had not gone far when we found a roc's egg, as large as the one I had seen before and evidently very nearly hatched, for the beak of the young bird had already pierced the shell.

Who acts: We, I, beak · What happens: determine, explore, not go, find, see, hatch · To what, where: island, egg, shell

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 (We, I, beak), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 determined	nsubj
2	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	2 determined	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 explore	punct
6	to	to	PART	_	7 explore	mark
7	explore	explore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 determined	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 explore	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 gone	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 gone	cc
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 gone	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 gone	advmod
13	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 determined	conj
14	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 gone	advmod
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 found	advmod
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 found	nsubj
17	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 gone	advcl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 roc	det
19	roc	roc	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 egg	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 roc	case
21	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 found	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 large	punct
23	as	as	ADV	_	24 large	advmod
24	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 egg	amod
25	as	as	ADP	_	27 one	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 one	det
27	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 seen	obl
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 seen	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 seen	aux
30	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 large	parataxis
31	before	before	ADV	_	30 seen	advmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 hatched	cc
33	evidently	evidently	ADV	_	36 hatched	advmod
34	very	very	ADV	_	35 nearly	advmod
35	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	36 hatched	advmod
36	hatched	hatch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 seen	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 beak	punct
38	for	for	ADP	_	40 beak	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 beak	det
40	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 hatched	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	44 bird	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 bird	det
43	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 bird	amod
44	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 pierced	obl
45	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 pierced	aux
46	already	already	ADV	_	47 pierced	advmod
47	pierced	pierce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	40 beak	acl:relcl
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 shell	det
49	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 pierced	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 determined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	determine	past	We		however property	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	explore	to-infinitive	We not said here	island		vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent it=Location
3	not go	past · perfect	We not said here		far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	find	past	we	a roc's egg		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Topic
5	see	past · perfect	I		as the one; before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as one=Attribute
6	hatch	participle	I not said here		for the beak; evidently, nearly property	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient
7	pierce	past · perfect	the beak not said here	the shell	of the young bird	vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=Patient

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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