The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 63

They will throw themselves at my feet with lamentations, and at length I will raise my head and throw a careless glance at her, then I shall go back to my former attitude.

Who acts: signs, I · What happens: throw, raise, go back · To what, where: signs, feet, head, length, careless glance

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (signs, I), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 throw	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 throw	aux
3	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 throw	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 feet	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 feet	nmod:poss
7	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 throw	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 lamentations	case
9	lamentations	lamentation	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 throw	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 raise	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 raise	cc
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 length	case
13	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 raise	obl
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 raise	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 raise	aux
16	raise	raise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 throw	parataxis
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 head	nmod:poss
18	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 raise	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 throw	cc
20	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 raise	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 glance	det
22	careless	careless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 glance	amod
23	glance	glance	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 throw	obj
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 her	case
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 throw	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 go	punct
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 go	advmod
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 go	nsubj
29	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 go	aux
30	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 raise	advcl
31	back	back	ADV	_	30 go	advmod
32	to	to	ADP	_	35 attitude	case
33	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 attitude	nmod:poss
34	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 attitude	amod
35	attitude	attitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 go	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 throw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	future	signs = sign	signs = sign	my feet		with lamentations	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme at foot=Destination
2	raise	future	I	my head	length			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme at length=Destination
3	throw	infinitive	I not said here	a careless glance			at wife	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent glance=Theme at she=Destination
4	go back	shall	I			then	to my former attitude result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to attitude=Result

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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