The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 5

I had penetrated some distance into the island when I saw an old man bent and feeble sitting upon the river bank, and at first I took him to be some ship-wrecked mariner like myself.

Who acts: I, old man · What happens: penetrate, see, sit, take, wreck, be · To what, where: distance, island, old man, river bank, man, wrecked mariner

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 (I, old man), 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 penetrated	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 penetrated	aux
3	penetrated	penetrate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 distance	det
5	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 penetrated	obj
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 island	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 island	det
8	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 penetrated	obl
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 saw	advmod
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 saw	nsubj
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 penetrated	advcl
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 man	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 saw	obj
15	bent	bent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 feeble	cc
17	feeble	feeble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 bent	conj
18	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 man	acl
19	upon	upon	ADP	_	22 bank	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bank	det
21	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bank	compound
22	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sitting	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 took	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 took	cc
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 first	case
26	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	28 took	obl
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 took	nsubj
28	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 penetrated	parataxis
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 took	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	36 mariner	mark
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 mariner	cop
32	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	36 mariner	det
33	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 wrecked	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 ship	punct
35	wrecked	wreck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 mariner	amod
36	mariner	mariner	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 took	advcl
37	like	like	ADP	_	38 myself	case
38	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	36 mariner	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 penetrated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	penetrate	past · perfect	I	some distance	the island		vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent distance=Patient
2	see	past	I	a old man			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
3	sit	gerund	a old man not said here		the river bank		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon bank=Location
4	take	past	I	man			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Theme at first=Asset
5	wreck	participle					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	is a	to-infinitive	I not said here	some wrecked mariner		like myself	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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