The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 60

Though I only ate what was absolutely necessary to keep myself alive, the inevitable moment came when, after swallowing my last morsel of food, I began to wonder if I must after all die of hunger.

Who acts: I, inevitable moment · What happens: eat, be, keep, come, swallow, begin · To what, where: myself, last morsel

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, inevitable moment), 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	Though	though	SCONJ	_	4 ate	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 ate	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 ate	advmod
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 began	advcl
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 necessary	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 necessary	cop
7	absolutely	absolutely	ADV	_	8 necessary	advmod
8	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ate	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 keep	mark
10	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 necessary	csubj
11	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 keep	obj
12	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 keep	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 moment	det
15	inevitable	inevitable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 moment	amod
16	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	nsubj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ate	conj
18	when	when	SCONJ	_	21 swallowing	mark
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 swallowing	punct
20	after	after	SCONJ	_	21 swallowing	mark
21	swallowing	swallow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 came	advcl
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 morsel	nmod:poss
23	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 morsel	amod
24	morsel	morsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 swallowing	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 food	case
26	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 morsel	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ate	punct
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 began	nsubj
29	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
30	to	to	PART	_	31 wonder	mark
31	wonder	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 began	xcomp
32	if	if	SCONJ	_	34 must	mark
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 must	nsubj
34	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 wonder	ccomp
35	after	after	ADP	_	37 die	case
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 die	det
37	die	die	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 wonder	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 hunger	case
39	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 die	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	I				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past				absolutely, necessary property	tree rules
3	keep	to-infinitive		myself		alive property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Theme
4	come	past	the inevitable moment				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	swallow	gerund	the inevitable moment not said here	my last morsel of food			vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent morsel=Patient
6	begin	past	I				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	wonder speech: ask	to-infinitive	I not said here		after all die of hunger		vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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