The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 89
This he turned, and found him-self dropping to the earth, though more slowly than he had left it.
Who acts: This, self, Firouz · What happens: turn, find, drop, leave · To what, where: Firouz, earth
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, self, Firouz), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 found | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 found | cc |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 found | obj |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 self | punct |
| 9 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 found | obl |
| 10 | dropping | drop | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 self | acl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 earth | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 earth | det |
| 13 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dropping | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 slowly | punct |
| 15 | though | though | ADV | _ | 17 slowly | advmod |
| 16 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 slowly | advmod |
| 17 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 10 dropping | advmod |
| 18 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 21 left | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 left | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 left | aux |
| 21 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 slowly | advcl |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 left | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | This | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find | past | This not said here | Firouz | self obl | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | |||
| 3 | drop | gerund | self not said here | the earth | slowly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to earth=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | leave | past · perfect | Firouz | earth | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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