The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 54

If I perished before I could reach the light of day once more I should be no worse off than I was now, for death stared me in the face, while there was always the possibility that, as I was born under a lucky star, I might find myself safe and sound in some desirable land.

Who acts: I, death · What happens: perish, reach, not be, be, stare, bear · To what, where: light, me, face, possibility, I, lucky star

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, death), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 perished	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 perished	nsubj
3	perished	perish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	before	before	SCONJ	_	7 reach	mark
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 reach	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 reach	aux
7	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 perished	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 light	det
9	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reach	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 day	case
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 light	nmod
12	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	13 more	advmod
13	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 reach	advmod
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 worse	nsubj
15	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 worse	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 worse	cop
17	no	no	ADV	_	18 worse	advmod
18	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 perished	ccomp
19	off	off	ADP	_	18 worse	compound:prt
20	than	than	SCONJ	_	23 now	mark
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 now	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 now	cop
23	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 worse	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 stared	punct
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	27 stared	mark
26	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stared	nsubj
27	stared	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 possibility	advcl
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 stared	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 face	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 face	det
31	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stared	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 was	punct
33	while	while	SCONJ	_	35 was	mark
34	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	35 was	expl
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 possibility	cop
36	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	38 possibility	advmod
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 possibility	det
38	possibility	possibility	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 perished	obl
39	that	that	ADV	_	38 possibility	advmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 born	punct
41	as	as	SCONJ	_	44 born	mark
42	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 born	nsubj:pass
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 born	aux:pass
44	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 possibility	conj
45	under	under	ADP	_	48 star	case
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 star	det
47	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 star	amod
48	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 born	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 find	punct
50	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	52 find	nsubj
51	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 find	aux
52	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 possibility	parataxis
53	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	52 find	obj
54	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 find	xcomp
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 sound	cc
56	sound	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 find	conj
57	in	in	ADP	_	60 land	case
58	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	60 land	det
59	desirable	desirable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 land	amod
60	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 sound	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 perished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	perish	past	I				vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	reach	could	I	the light of day			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent light=Theme
3	not is	should	I			bad property	tree rules
4	is	past	I			now property	tree rules
5	stare	past	death	me	the face		tree rules
6	is a	past		the possibility		always, that property	tree rules
7	bear	past · passive		I	a lucky star		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
8	find	might	I	myself		safe property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Topic
9	sound	present	I not said here		some desirable land		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Location
10	light			day			nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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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