The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 63

Once inside the doors I was kept by force by that dreadful black, and it is now three years that I have been here, to my great grief."

Who acts: force, that · What happens: keep, be · To what, where: I, doors, three years

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (force, that), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 kept	advmod
2	inside	inside	ADP	_	4 doors	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 doors	det
4	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 kept	obl
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 kept	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 kept	aux:pass
7	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 force	case
9	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kept	obl
10	by	by	SCONJ	_	13 black	mark
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 black	nsubj
12	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 black	amod
13	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 kept	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 years	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 years	cc
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 years	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 years	cop
18	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 years	advmod
19	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 years	nummod
20	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 here	obl:unmarked
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 here	nsubj
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 here	nsubj
23	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 here	aux
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 here	cop
25	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 kept	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 grief	punct
27	to	to	ADP	_	30 grief	case
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 grief	nmod:poss
29	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 grief	amod
30	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kept	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 grief	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 grief	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past · passive	force	I	the doors		to my great grief; once property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Theme inside door=Location
2	is a	present	force	three years		now		tree rules
3	is	present · perfect	that				here property	tree rules

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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