The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 11

But yesterday, I was in my father's court, engaged in the celebration of our most solemn festival; to-day, I am in an unknown land, in danger of my life."

Who acts: I · What happens: be, engage, celebrate · To what, where: court, yesterday, celebration, unknown land, solemn festival

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	12 engaged	cc
2	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 engaged	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 court	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 court	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 court	cop
6	in	in	ADP	_	10 court	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 father	nmod:poss
8	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 court	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 father	case
10	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 yesterday	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 engaged	punct
12	engaged	engage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 celebration	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 celebration	det
15	celebration	celebration	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 engaged	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	20 festival	case
17	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 festival	nmod:poss
18	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	19 solemn	advmod
19	solemn	solemn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 festival	amod
20	festival	festival	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 celebration	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 land	punct
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 day	case
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 to	punct
24	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 land	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 day	punct
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 land	nsubj
27	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 land	cop
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 land	case
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 land	det
30	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 land	amod
31	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 engaged	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 danger	punct
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 danger	case
34	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 land	appos
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 life	case
36	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 life	nmod:poss
37	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 danger	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 danger	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 land	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	I		my father's court			tree rules
2	engage	participle · passive		yesterday and my father's court			in the celebration of our solemn festival goal	vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme in celebration=Goal
3	is	present	I		a unknown land	day		tree rules
4	celebrate			our solemn festival				nom celebration «event transitive»: of=patient

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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