The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 76
That night I saw nothing, but just after sunrise the next morning a large herd of elephants came crashing and trampling by.
Who acts: I, sunrise · What happens: see, crash · To what, where: nothing
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 (I, sunrise), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 night | det |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 saw | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 crashing | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 crashing | cc |
| 8 | just | just | ADV | _ | 10 sunrise | advmod |
| 9 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 sunrise | case |
| 10 | sunrise | sunrise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 crashing | nsubj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 morning | det |
| 12 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 morning | amod |
| 13 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 crashing | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 herd | det |
| 15 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 herd | amod |
| 16 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 crashing | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 elephants | case |
| 18 | elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 herd | nmod |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 crashing | aux |
| 20 | crashing | crash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 saw | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 trampling | cc |
| 22 | trampling | trampling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 crashing | conj |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 crashing | fixed |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | I | nothing | night | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | crash | past | sunrise | morning | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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