The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 55

I decided at any rate to risk it, and speedily built myself a stout raft of drift-wood with strong cords, of which enough and to spare lay strewn upon the beach.

Who acts: I · What happens: decide, risk, build, spare · To what, where: rate, myself, strewn

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), 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	2 decided	nsubj
2	decided	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 rate	case
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 rate	det
5	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 decided	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 risk	mark
7	risk	risk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 decided	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 risk	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 built	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 built	cc
11	speedily	speedily	ADV	_	12 built	advmod
12	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 decided	conj
13	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 built	obj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 raft	det
15	stout	stout	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 raft	amod
16	raft	raft	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 built	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 wood	case
18	drift	drift	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wood	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 drift	punct
20	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 raft	nmod
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 cords	case
22	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 cords	amod
23	cords	cord	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 built	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 enough	punct
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 which	case
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 enough	obl
27	enough	enough	ADV	_	12 built	advmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 spare	cc
29	to	to	PART	_	30 spare	mark
30	spare	spare	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 built	conj
31	lay	lay	ADV	Degree=Cmp	32 strewn	advmod
32	strewn	strewn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 spare	obj
33	upon	upon	ADP	_	35 beach	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 beach	det
35	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 strewn	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 decided	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	decide	past	I		any rate		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	risk	to-infinitive	I not said here	rate			vn risk-94-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Pivot
3	build	past	I not said here	myself		with strong cords; enough, speedily property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset myself=Beneficiary raft=Product
4	spare	to-infinitive	I not said here	strewn			vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent strewn=Asset

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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