The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 72
When we had reached the wildest part of it we stopped, and my master said to me: "This forest swarms with elephants.
Who acts: we, master, forest · What happens: reach, stop, say, swarm · To what, where: wildest part, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, master, forest), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 reached | mark |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reached | aux |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 stopped | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 part | det |
| 6 | wildest | wild | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 part | amod |
| 7 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 part | nmod |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 stopped | nsubj |
| 11 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 master | nmod:poss |
| 15 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 stopped | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 me | case |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 said | obl |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 swarms | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 swarms | punct |
| 21 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 forest | det |
| 22 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 swarms | nsubj |
| 23 | swarms | swarm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 elephants | case |
| 25 | elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 swarms | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past · perfect | we | the wildest part of part | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent part=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stop | past | we | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | my master | me | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | swarm in a quote | present | this forest | with elephants | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «PP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with elephant=Theme |
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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