The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 47

Here, then, upon this desolate shore we abandoned ourselves to our fate, for there was no possibility of scaling the mountain, and if a ship had appeared it could only have shared our doom.

Who acts: shore, possibility, ship, our · What happens: be, abandon, scale, appear, share, fate · To what, where: ourselves, fate, mountain, ship

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 (shore, possibility, ship, our), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Here	punct
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Here	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Here	punct
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 this	case
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	1 Here	obl
7	desolate	desolate	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	1 Here	cop
8	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 abandoned	nsubj
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 abandoned	nsubj
10	abandoned	abandon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Here	parataxis
11	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 abandoned	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 fate	case
13	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 fate	nmod:poss
14	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 abandoned	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 was	punct
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 was	mark
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 was	expl
18	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 abandoned	parataxis
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 possibility	det
20	possibility	possibility	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 was	nsubj
21	of	of	SCONJ	_	22 scaling	mark
22	scaling	scale	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 possibility	acl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 mountain	det
24	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 scaling	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 appeared	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 appeared	cc
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 appeared	mark
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 ship	det
29	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 appeared	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 appeared	aux
31	appeared	appear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 abandoned	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 shared	nsubj:pass
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 shared	aux
34	only	only	ADV	_	36 shared	advmod
35	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 shared	aux
36	shared	share	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 appeared	advcl
37	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 doom	nmod:poss
38	doom	doom	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 shared	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive				then	upon this; here property	tree rules
2	abandon	past	shore	ourselves	our fate			vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme ourselves=Source to fate=Destination
3	be	past	no possibility		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	scale	gerund	no possibility not said here	the mountain				vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Source
5	appear a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	a ship					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	share	could · perfect · passive		ship				tree rules
7	fate		our					nom fate «event transitive»: poss=agent
8	doom		our					nom doom «event transitive»: poss=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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