The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 90

For a moment we lost sight of them, and were flattering ourselves that we had escaped, when they reappeared and soared into the air directly over our vessel, and we saw that each held in its claws an immense rock ready to crush us.

Who acts: we, merchants · What happens: lose, flatter, escape, reappear, soar, see · To what, where: sight, ourselves, air, each, claws, us · 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 (we, merchants), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 moment	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 moment	det
3	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lost	obl
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 lost	nsubj
5	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lost	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sight	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 flattering	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 flattering	cc
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 flattering	aux
12	flattering	flatter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 lost	advcl
13	ourselves	ourselve	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 flattering	obj
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 escaped	nsubj:pass
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 escaped	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 escaped	aux
17	escaped	escape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 ourselves	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 reappeared	punct
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 reappeared	advmod
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 reappeared	nsubj
21	reappeared	reappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 flattering	parataxis
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 soared	cc
23	soared	soar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 reappeared	conj
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 air	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 air	det
26	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 soared	obl
27	directly	directly	ADV	_	30 vessel	advmod
28	over	over	ADP	_	30 vessel	case
29	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 vessel	nmod:poss
30	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 soared	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 saw	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 saw	cc
33	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 saw	nsubj
34	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lost	conj
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 held	mark
36	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	37 held	nsubj:pass
37	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 saw	ccomp
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 claws	case
39	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 claws	nmod:poss
40	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 held	obl
41	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 rock	det
42	immense	immense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 rock	amod
43	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 held	obj
44	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 held	advcl
45	to	to	PART	_	46 crush	mark
46	crush	crush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 ready	xcomp
47	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 crush	obj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	we	sight of merchants		moment		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Eventuality
2	flatter	past · progressive	we not said here	ourselves				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus ourselve=Experiencer
3	escape	past · perfect · passive		ourselves				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Initial_Location
4	reappear	past	merchants = merchant					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	soar	past	merchants = merchant not said here		the air		over our vessel	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme into air=Source over vessel=Trajectory
6	see	past	we					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	hold	participle · passive		each	air's claws			vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme rock=Eventuality
8	crush	to-infinitive		us				vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient
9	sight			merchants = merchant				nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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