The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 87

Whereupon I turned and made for the city as fast as I could go, not seeing a single elephant by the way, which convinced me that they had retired deeper into the forest to leave the way open to the Ivory Hill, and I did not know how sufficiently to admire their sagacity.

Who acts: I, way, elephants · What happens: turn, make, go, not see, convince, retire · To what, where: single elephant, me, forest, way, Ivory Hill, sagacity · 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 (I, way, elephants), 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	Whereupon	whereupon	ADV	PronType=Int	3 turned	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 turned	nsubj
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 made	cc
5	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	conj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 city	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 city	det
8	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obl
9	as	as	ADV	_	10 fast	advmod
10	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 made	advmod
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 go	mark
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 go	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 go	aux
14	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 fast	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 seeing	punct
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 seeing	advmod
17	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 go	advcl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 elephant	det
19	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 elephant	amod
20	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 seeing	obj
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 way	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 way	det
23	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 seeing	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 convinced	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 convinced	nsubj
26	convinced	convince	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 way	acl:relcl
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 convinced	obj
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 retired	mark
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 retired	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 retired	aux
31	retired	retire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 convinced	ccomp
32	deeper	deep	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 retired	xcomp
33	into	into	ADP	_	35 forest	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 forest	det
35	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 retired	obl
36	to	to	PART	_	37 leave	mark
37	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 retired	advcl
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 way	det
39	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 leave	obj
40	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 leave	xcomp
41	to	to	ADP	_	44 Hill	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 Hill	det
43	Ivory	Ivory	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 Hill	compound
44	Hill	Hill	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 leave	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 know	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 know	cc
47	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	50 know	nsubj
48	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 know	aux
49	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	50 know	advmod
50	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 turned	conj
51	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	52 sufficiently	advmod
52	sufficiently	sufficiently	ADV	_	54 admire	advmod
53	to	to	PART	_	54 admire	mark
54	admire	admire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 know	ccomp
55	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 sagacity	nmod:poss
56	sagacity	sagacity	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 admire	obj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn	past	I				whereupon property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	make	past	I not said here				for the city; fast property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for city=Asset
3	go	could	I					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not see	gerund	I not said here	a single elephant			by the way	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer elephant=Stimulus
5	convince	past	the way	me				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Patient clause=Result
6	retire	past · perfect	elephants = elephant			the forest	deep property	vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	leave	to-infinitive	elephants = elephant not said here	the way	the Ivory Hill		open property	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent way=Theme to hill=Recipient
8	not know	past · do-support	I					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
9	admire	to-infinitive		elephants's sagacity			sufficiently property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sagacity=Stimulus

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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