The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 10

However they succeeded in rousing me from my stupor, and I dashed into the court-yard, followed closely by Amina, who made frantic dives at me, which I was not quick enough to dodge.

Who acts: blows, I, Amina, frantic · What happens: succeed, rouse, dash, follow, make, dive · To what, where: me, stupor

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blows, I, Amina, frantic), 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	However	however	ADV	_	3 succeeded	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 succeeded	nsubj
3	succeeded	succeed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	SCONJ	_	5 rousing	mark
5	rousing	rouse	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 succeeded	advcl
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 rousing	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 stupor	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 stupor	nmod:poss
9	stupor	stupor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rousing	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dashed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 dashed	cc
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 dashed	nsubj
13	dashed	dash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 succeeded	conj
14	into	into	ADP	_	18 yard	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 yard	det
16	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 yard	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 court	punct
18	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dashed	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 followed	punct
20	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 succeeded	parataxis
21	closely	closely	ADV	_	20 followed	advmod
22	by	by	ADP	_	23 Amina	case
23	Amina	Amina	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 followed	obl:agent
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 made	punct
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 made	nsubj
26	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 Amina	advcl:relcl
27	frantic	frantic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 dives	nsubj
28	dives	dive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 made	ccomp
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 me	case
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 dives	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 quick	punct
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 quick	nsubj
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 quick	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 quick	cop
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 quick	advmod
36	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 dives	parataxis
37	enough	enough	ADV	_	36 quick	advmod
38	to	to	PART	_	39 dodge	mark
39	dodge	dodge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 quick	advcl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 succeeded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	succeed	past	blows = blow			however property	vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	rouse	gerund	blows = blow not said here	me	my stupor		vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
3	dash	past	I			into the court yard	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into yard=Destination
4	follow	participle				closely property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	make	past	Amina				tree rules
6	dive	present	frantic			at me	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at i=Location
7	not is	past				enough, quick property	tree rules
8	dodge	to-infinitive					vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: 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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