The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 28

The ball rolled along the road so fast that Prince Bahman had much difficulty in keeping up with it, and it never relaxed its speed till the foot of the mountain was reached.

Who acts: Bahman, much difficulty, ball · What happens: roll, have, keep up, not relax, reach · To what, where: ball, road, much difficulty, speed, foot

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 42. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bahman, much difficulty, ball), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ball	det
2	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 relaxed	nsubj
3	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 ball	acl
4	along	along	ADP	_	6 road	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 road	det
6	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rolled	obl
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 fast	advmod
8	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 rolled	advmod
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 had	mark
10	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Bahman	nmod:desc
11	Bahman	Bahman	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fast	advcl
13	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 difficulty	amod
14	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obj
15	in	in	SCONJ	_	16 keeping	mark
16	keeping	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 difficulty	acl
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 keeping	compound:prt
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 keeping	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 relaxed	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 relaxed	cc
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 relaxed	nsubj
23	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	24 relaxed	advmod
24	relaxed	relax	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 speed	nmod:poss
26	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 relaxed	obj
27	till	till	SCONJ	_	34 reached	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 foot	det
29	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 reached	nsubj:pass
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 mountain	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 mountain	det
32	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 foot	nmod
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 reached	aux:pass
34	reached	reach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 relaxed	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 relaxed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	roll	participle		the ball not said here	the road	fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along road=Trajectory
2	have	past	Bahman Prince	much difficulty			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent difficulty=Patient
3	keep up	gerund	much difficulty not said here			with ball	vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent
4	not relax	past	the ball	ball's speed			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus speed=Experiencer
5	reach	past · passive		the foot of the mountain			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=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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