The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 93

I had not been in my house many minutes before Amina returned, and as she approached I stepped in front of her, with the water in my hand.

Who acts: I, Amina · What happens: have, not be, return, approach, step · To what, where: house, front

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 (I, Amina), 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	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 house	advmod
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 house	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 house	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 house	nmod:poss
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 minutes	amod
9	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
10	before	before	SCONJ	_	12 returned	mark
11	Amina	Amina	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 returned	nsubj
12	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 approached	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 approached	cc
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 approached	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 approached	nsubj
17	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 stepped	nsubj
19	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 approached	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 front	case
21	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stepped	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 her	case
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 front	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 water	punct
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 water	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 water	det
27	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stepped	obl
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 hand	case
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 hand	nmod:poss
30	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 water	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	I		minute		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not is	participle		my house			tree rules
3	return	past	Amina				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	approach	past	Amina				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	step	past	I	front of Amina		with the water in my hand	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Trajectory

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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