The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 79
For two months I hunted thus, and no day passed without my securing, an elephant.
Who acts: I, day, my · What happens: hunt, pass, secure · To what, where: elephant
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, day, my), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 months | case |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 months | nummod |
| 3 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hunted | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 hunted | nsubj |
| 5 | hunted | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 5 hunted | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 passed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 passed | cc |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 day | det |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 passed | nsubj |
| 11 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hunted | parataxis |
| 12 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 14 securing | mark |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 securing | nsubj |
| 14 | securing | secure | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 passed | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 elephant | punct |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 elephant | det |
| 17 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 securing | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hunted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hunt | past | I | month | thus property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | pass | past | no day | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | secure | gerund | my | a elephant | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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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