The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 46

It struck me as a very strange thing that a river of clear fresh water, which gushed out from the mountain not far from where we stood, instead of flowing into the sea as rivers generally do, turned off sharply, and flowed out of sight under a natural archway of rock, and when I went to examine it more closely I found that inside the cave the walls were thick with diamonds, and rubies, and masses of crystal, and the floor was strewn with ambergris.

Who acts: strip, strange thing, we, rivers, I, walls · What happens: strike, gush out, stand, flow, do, turn off · To what, where: me, mountain, sea, sight, natural archway, rubies · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (strip, strange thing, we, rivers), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 struck	nsubj
2	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 struck	obj
4	as	as	ADP	_	8 thing	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 thing	det
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 strange	advmod
7	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 thing	amod
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 struck	obl
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 gushed	nsubj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 river	det
11	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 gushed	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 water	case
13	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 water	amod
14	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 water	amod
15	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 river	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 gushed	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 gushed	nsubj
18	gushed	gush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 thing	acl:relcl
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 gushed	compound:prt
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 mountain	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 mountain	det
22	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 gushed	obl
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 far	advmod
24	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 stood	advmod
25	from	from	ADP	_	26 where	case
26	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	28 stood	advmod
27	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 stood	nsubj
28	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 gushed	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 flowing	punct
30	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	32 flowing	mark
31	of	of	ADP	_	30 instead	fixed
32	flowing	flow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 stood	advcl
33	into	into	ADP	_	35 sea	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 sea	det
35	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 flowing	obl
36	as	as	SCONJ	_	39 do	mark
37	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 do	nsubj
38	generally	generally	ADV	_	39 do	advmod
39	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 flowing	advcl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 turned	punct
41	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 stood	conj
42	off	off	ADP	_	41 turned	compound:prt
43	sharply	sharply	ADV	_	41 turned	advmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 flowed	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 flowed	cc
46	flowed	flow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 struck	conj
47	out	out	ADP	_	49 sight	case
48	of	of	ADP	_	49 sight	case
49	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 flowed	obl
50	under	under	ADP	_	53 archway	case
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 archway	det
52	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 archway	amod
53	archway	archway	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 flowed	obl
54	of	of	ADP	_	55 rock	case
55	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 archway	nmod
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 went	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 went	cc
58	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	60 went	advmod
59	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	60 went	nsubj
60	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 struck	conj
61	to	to	PART	_	62 examine	mark
62	examine	examine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	60 went	xcomp
63	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 examine	obj
64	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	65 closely	advmod
65	closely	closely	ADV	_	67 found	advmod
66	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	67 found	nsubj
67	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	62 examine	advcl
68	that	that	SCONJ	_	75 thick	mark
69	inside	inside	ADP	_	71 cave	case
70	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	71 cave	det
71	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	75 thick	obl
72	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	73 walls	det
73	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	75 thick	nsubj
74	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	75 thick	cop
75	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	67 found	ccomp
76	with	with	ADP	_	77 diamonds	case
77	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	75 thick	obl
78	,	,	PUNCT	_	80 rubies	punct
79	and	and	CCONJ	_	80 rubies	cc
80	rubies	ruby	NOUN	Number=Plur	60 went	obl
81	,	,	PUNCT	_	83 masses	punct
82	and	and	CCONJ	_	83 masses	cc
83	masses	mass	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 struck	parataxis
84	of	of	ADP	_	85 crystal	case
85	crystal	crystal	NOUN	Number=Sing	83 masses	nmod
86	,	,	PUNCT	_	91 strewn	punct
87	and	and	CCONJ	_	91 strewn	cc
88	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	89 floor	det
89	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	91 strewn	nsubj
90	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	91 strewn	cop
91	strewn	strewn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 struck	conj
92	with	with	ADP	_	93 ambergris	case
93	ambergris	ambergris	NOUN	Number=Sing	91 strewn	obl
94	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 struck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	strike	past	strip	me		as a strange thing	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent i=Instrument
2	gush out	past	a strange thing		the mountain		vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from mountain=Source
3	stand	past	we			far property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	flow	gerund	we not said here		the sea		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	do	present	rivers			generally property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	turn off	past	we not said here			sharply property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	flow out	past	strip not said here	sight	a natural archway of rock		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sight=Theme
8	go	past	I	rubies			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	examine	to-infinitive	I not said here	strip			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
10	find	past	I			closely property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
11	is	past	the walls		the cave	with diamonds; thick property	tree rules
12	is	past	the floor			with ambergris; strewn property	tree rules

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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