The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 57
Once out in the current my raft flew swiftly under the gloomy archway, and I found myself in total darkness, carried smoothly forward by the rapid river.
Who acts: raft, I · What happens: fly, find, carry · To what, where: current, myself, total darkness
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 (raft, 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 out | advmod |
| 2 | out | out | ADV | _ | 8 flew | advmod |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 current | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 current | det |
| 5 | current | current | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flew | obl |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 raft | nmod:poss |
| 7 | raft | raft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flew | nsubj |
| 8 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 8 flew | advmod |
| 10 | under | under | ADP | _ | 13 archway | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 archway | det |
| 12 | gloomy | gloomy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 archway | amod |
| 13 | archway | archway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flew | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 found | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 found | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 found | nsubj |
| 17 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 flew | conj |
| 18 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 found | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 darkness | case |
| 20 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 darkness | amod |
| 21 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 found | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 carried | punct |
| 23 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 flew | conj |
| 24 | smoothly | smoothly | ADV | _ | 23 carried | advmod |
| 25 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 23 carried | advmod |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 river | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 river | det |
| 28 | rapid | rapid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 river | amod |
| 29 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 carried | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | my raft | the current | under the gloomy archway; out, swiftly property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in current=Location | |||
| 2 | find | past | I | myself | total darkness | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Topic | |||
| 3 | carry | past | my raft not said here | by the rapid river; forward, smoothly property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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