The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 93
I myself went down with the rest, but had the good fortune to rise unhurt, and by holding on to a piece of driftwood with one hand and swimming with the other I kept myself afloat and was presently washed up by the tide on to an island.
Who acts: I, tide · What happens: go down, have, rise, hold on, keep, wash up · To what, where: good fortune, myself
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, tide), 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 went | nsubj |
| 2 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 1 I | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 rest | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 rest | det |
| 7 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 had | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 had | cc |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fortune | det |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fortune | amod |
| 13 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 rise | mark |
| 15 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 fortune | acl |
| 16 | unhurt | unhurt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 rise | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 kept | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 kept | cc |
| 19 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 20 holding | mark |
| 20 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 kept | advcl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 holding | compound:prt |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 piece | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 piece | det |
| 24 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 holding | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 driftwood | case |
| 26 | driftwood | driftwood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 piece | nmod |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 hand | case |
| 28 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 hand | nummod |
| 29 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 holding | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 swimming | cc |
| 31 | swimming | swimming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hand | conj |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 other | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 other | det |
| 34 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 holding | obl |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 kept | nsubj |
| 36 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 had | parataxis |
| 37 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 36 kept | obj |
| 38 | afloat | afloat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 kept | xcomp |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 washed | cc |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 washed | aux:pass |
| 41 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 42 washed | advmod |
| 42 | washed | wash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 kept | conj |
| 43 | up | up | ADP | _ | 42 washed | compound:prt |
| 44 | by | by | ADP | _ | 46 tide | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 tide | det |
| 46 | tide | tide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 washed | obl |
| 47 | on | on | ADP | _ | 42 washed | compound:prt |
| 48 | to | to | ADP | _ | 50 island | case |
| 49 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 island | det |
| 50 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 washed | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | past | I | with the rest; down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | have | past | I not said here | the good fortune | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Patient | ||||
| 3 | rise | to-infinitive | I not said here | the good fortune not said here | unhurt property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | hold on | gerund | I not said here | to a piece of driftwood; with one hand and swimming; with the other | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | keep | past | I | myself | afloat property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Theme | |||
| 6 | wash up | past · passive | the tide | to a island; presently property | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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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