The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 11

This went on all day, and even at night, when I threw myself down half dead with weariness, the terrible old man held on tight to my neck, nor did he fail to greet the first glimmer of morning light by drumming upon me with his heels, until I perforce awoke and resumed my dreary march with rage and bitterness in my heart.

Who acts: This, I, man, morning light · What happens: go, throw down, hold, fail, not greet, drum · To what, where: myself, terrible old man, tight, first glimmer, dreary march, heart

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, I, man, morning light), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 day	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 day	det
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 night	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 night	cc
8	even	even	ADV	_	10 night	advmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 night	case
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 threw	punct
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 threw	advmod
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 threw	nsubj
14	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	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	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	18 dead	advmod
18	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 threw	advcl
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 weariness	case
20	weariness	weariness	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 threw	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 man	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 man	det
23	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 man	amod
24	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 man	amod
25	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 weariness	appos
26	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 man	acl
27	on	on	ADP	_	28 tight	case
28	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 held	obl
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 neck	case
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 neck	nmod:poss
31	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 held	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 fail	punct
33	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	36 fail	cc
34	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 fail	aux
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 fail	nsubj
36	fail	fail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 went	parataxis
37	to	to	PART	_	38 greet	mark
38	greet	greet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 fail	xcomp
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 glimmer	det
40	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	41 glimmer	amod
41	glimmer	glimmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 greet	obj
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 light	case
43	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 light	compound
44	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 glimmer	nmod
45	by	by	SCONJ	_	46 drumming	mark
46	drumming	drum	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 greet	advcl
47	upon	upon	ADP	_	48 me	case
48	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 drumming	obl
49	with	with	ADP	_	51 heels	case
50	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 heels	nmod:poss
51	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 drumming	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 awoke	punct
53	until	until	SCONJ	_	56 awoke	mark
54	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	56 awoke	nsubj
55	perforce	perforce	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 awoke	nsubj
56	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 fail	parataxis
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 resumed	cc
58	resumed	resume	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 awoke	conj
59	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	61 march	nmod:poss
60	dreary	dreary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 march	amod
61	march	march	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 resumed	obj
62	with	with	ADP	_	63 rage	case
63	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 resumed	obl
64	and	and	CCONJ	_	65 bitterness	cc
65	bitterness	bitterness	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 rage	conj
66	in	in	ADP	_	68 heart	case
67	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	68 heart	nmod:poss
68	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 resumed	obl
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	This			day; night		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	throw down	past	I	myself			with weariness	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Theme
3	hold	participle		the terrible old man not said here	tight		to my neck	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tight=Location
4	fail	past · do-support	man					vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	not greet speech: greet	to-infinitive	man not said here	the first glimmer of morning light				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glimmer=Theme
6	drum	gerund	man not said here				upon me; with man's heels	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with heel=Instrument
7	awake	past	I					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	resume	past	I not said here	my dreary march	my heart		with rage and bitterness	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.subeventuality»: agent=Agent march=Eventuality with rage=Subeventuality
9	glimmer		morning light					nom glimmer «event intransitive»: of=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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