The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 94
Overwhelmed by hunger, thirst, fatigue and sleep, he ended by spending the night at the foot of the tree.
Who acts: strength · What happens: overwhelm, end, spend · To what, where: foot
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strength), 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 | Overwhelmed | overwhelm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 hunger | case |
| 3 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Overwhelmed | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 thirst | punct |
| 5 | thirst | thirst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hunger | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fatigue | punct |
| 7 | fatigue | fatigue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hunger | appos |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sleep | cc |
| 9 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fatigue | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ended | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 ended | nsubj |
| 12 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Overwhelmed | parataxis |
| 13 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 14 spending | mark |
| 14 | spending | spend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 ended | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 night | det |
| 16 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spending | obj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 foot | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 foot | det |
| 19 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spending | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 tree | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 tree | det |
| 22 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 foot | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Overwhelmed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overwhelm | participle | by hunger and thirst | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | end | past | strength | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | spend | gerund | strength not said here | the foot of the tree | night | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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