The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 82

I had indeed good reason for my terror when, an instant later, the largest of the animals wound his trunk round the stem of my tree, and with one mighty effort tore it up by the roots, bringing me to the ground entangled in its branches.

Who acts: I, largest · What happens: have, woun, tore up, bring, entangle, stem · To what, where: good reason, trunk, me, tree

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, largest), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	2 had	advmod
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 reason	amod
5	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 terror	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 terror	nmod:poss
8	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reason	nmod
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 instant	mark
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 instant	punct
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 instant	det
12	instant	instant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 had	advcl
13	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 instant	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 largest	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 largest	det
16	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 wound	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 animals	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 animals	det
19	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 largest	obl
20	wound	woun	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 trunk	nmod:poss
22	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wound	obj
23	round	round	ADP	_	25 stem	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 stem	det
25	stem	stem	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wound	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 tree	case
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 tree	nmod:poss
28	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stem	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 tore	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 tore	cc
31	with	with	ADP	_	34 effort	case
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 effort	nummod
33	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 effort	amod
34	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 tore	obl
35	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 tore	obj
37	up	up	ADP	_	35 tore	compound:prt
38	by	by	ADP	_	40 roots	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 roots	det
40	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 tore	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 bringing	punct
42	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 tore	advcl
43	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 bringing	iobj
44	to	to	ADP	_	46 ground	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 ground	det
46	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 entangled	obl
47	entangled	entangle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 bringing	acl:relcl
48	in	in	ADP	_	50 branches	case
49	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 branches	nmod:poss
50	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 entangled	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	I	good reason		for my terror; indeed property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient
2	woun	past	the largest	arrow's trunk		round the stem of my tree	tree rules
3	tore up	past		trunk		with one mighty effort; by the roots	tree rules
4	bring	gerund			me		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination
5	entangle	past				to the ground; in ground's branches	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in branch=Theme
6	stem			my tree			nom stem «communication transitive»: of=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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