The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 50

After walking some time, we reached what looked like a valley, but with such a narrow entrance that my camels could only pass one by one.

Who acts: we, camels · What happens: walk, reach, look, pass · To what, where: narrow entrance

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, camels), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	2 walking	mark
2	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 reached	advcl
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walking	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 walking	punct
6	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 reached	nsubj
7	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 looked	nsubj
9	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 reached	ccomp
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 valley	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 valley	det
12	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 looked	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 entrance	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 entrance	cc
15	with	with	ADP	_	19 entrance	case
16	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	19 entrance	det:predet
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 entrance	det
18	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 entrance	amod
19	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reached	obl
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 pass	obj
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 camels	nmod:poss
22	camels	camel	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 pass	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 pass	aux
24	only	only	ADV	_	25 pass	advmod
25	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 entrance	acl:relcl
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 pass	obj
27	by	by	ADP	_	28 one	case
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 pass	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	walk	gerund	we not said here		time		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	reach	past	we			with such narrow entrance	tree rules
3	look	past				like a valley	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	pass	could	my camels	such narrow entrance		by one	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent that=Recipient one=Theme

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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