The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 94
Its shores were steep and rocky, but I scrambled up safely and threw myself down to rest upon the green turf.
Who acts: shores, I · What happens: be, scramble up, throw down, rest · To what, where: myself, green turf
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 (shores, 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 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 shores | nmod:poss |
| 2 | shores | shore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 steep | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 steep | cop |
| 4 | steep | steep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 rocky | cc |
| 6 | rocky | rocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 steep | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 scrambled | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 scrambled | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 scrambled | nsubj |
| 10 | scrambled | scramble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 steep | parataxis |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 scrambled | compound:prt |
| 12 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 10 scrambled | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 threw | cc |
| 14 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 scrambled | conj |
| 15 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 threw | obj |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 14 threw | compound:prt |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 rest | mark |
| 18 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 threw | advcl |
| 19 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 turf | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 turf | det |
| 21 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 turf | amod |
| 22 | turf | turf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rest | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 steep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | island's shores | steep property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | island's shores not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | scramble up | past | I | safely property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | throw down | past | I not said here | myself | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Theme | ||||
| 5 | rest | to-infinitive | I not said here | the green turf | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon turf=Location |
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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