The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 68
I was a quick runner, and it did not take me very long to come up with him. "
Who acts: I, it · What happens: be, not take, come up · To what, where: quick runner, me
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 (I, it), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 runner | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 runner | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 runner | det |
| 4 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 runner | amod |
| 5 | runner | runner | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 take | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 take | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 take | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 take | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 take | advmod |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 runner | parataxis |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 take | obj |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 long | advmod |
| 14 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 take | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 come | mark |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 long | xcomp |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 come | compound:prt |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 come | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 runner | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 runner | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | I | a quick runner | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not take | past · do-support | it | me | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | ||||
| 3 | come up | to-infinitive | with demon | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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