The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 61
Then, worn out with anxiety and fatigue, I fell into a deep sleep, and when I again opened my eyes I was once more in the light of day; a beautiful country lay before me, and my raft, which was tied to the river bank, was surrounded by friendly looking black men.
Who acts: I, beautiful country · What happens: wear out, fall, open, be, lie, tie · To what, where: deep sleep, eyes, light, raft, black men
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, beautiful country), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 worn | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 worn | punct |
| 3 | worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 worn | compound:prt |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 anxiety | case |
| 6 | anxiety | anxiety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 worn | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 fatigue | cc |
| 8 | fatigue | fatigue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 anxiety | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fell | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 fell | nsubj |
| 11 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 worn | parataxis |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 sleep | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 sleep | det |
| 14 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sleep | amod |
| 15 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fell | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 opened | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 opened | cc |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 opened | advmod |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 opened | nsubj |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 21 opened | advmod |
| 21 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 fell | conj |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 23 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 opened | obj |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 light | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 light | cop |
| 26 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 27 more | advmod |
| 27 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 30 light | advmod |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 light | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 light | det |
| 30 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 opened | parataxis |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 day | case |
| 32 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 light | nmod |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 lay | punct |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 country | det |
| 35 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 country | amod |
| 36 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 lay | nsubj |
| 37 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 worn | parataxis |
| 38 | before | before | ADP | _ | 39 me | case |
| 39 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 lay | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 raft | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 raft | cc |
| 42 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 raft | nmod:poss |
| 43 | raft | raft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 lay | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 tied | punct |
| 45 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 47 tied | nsubj:pass |
| 46 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 tied | aux:pass |
| 47 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 raft | acl:relcl |
| 48 | to | to | ADP | _ | 51 bank | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 bank | det |
| 50 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 bank | compound |
| 51 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 tied | obl |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 surrounded | punct |
| 53 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 54 surrounded | aux:pass |
| 54 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 lay | conj |
| 55 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 57 looking | mark |
| 56 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 57 looking | amod |
| 57 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 54 surrounded | advcl |
| 58 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 59 men | amod |
| 59 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 57 looking | obj |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 worn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear out | participle | then | with anxiety and fatigue | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | I | into a deep sleep result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into sleep=Result | ||||
| 3 | open | past | I | my eyes | again | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | |||
| 4 | is | past | I | the light | day | tree rules | |||
| 5 | lie | past | a beautiful country | my raft | before me | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before i=Location | |||
| 6 | tie | past · passive | my raft | to the river bank | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to bank=Co-Patient | ||||
| 7 | surround | past · passive | a beautiful country not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 8 | look | gerund | a beautiful country not said here | black men | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme man=Attribute |
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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