The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 46
I could see nothing beneath me, and for some time was so confused that I did not even know in what direction I was travelling.
Who acts: I · What happens: see, be, not know, travel · To what, where: nothing, direction
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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | aux |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 see | obj |
| 5 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 6 me | case |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 see | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 confused | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 confused | cc |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 time | case |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 time | det |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 confused | obl |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 confused | cop |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 confused | advmod |
| 14 | confused | confused | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 see | parataxis |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 know | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 know | nsubj |
| 17 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 know | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 know | advmod |
| 19 | even | even | ADV | _ | 20 know | advmod |
| 20 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 confused | advcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 direction | case |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 direction | nsubj |
| 23 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 know | obl |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 travelling | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 travelling | aux |
| 26 | travelling | travel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 direction | acl:relcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | could | I | nothing | beneath me | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is | past | time | confused property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not know | past · do-support | I | direction | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | travel | past · progressive | I | direction not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme direction=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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