The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 59

He drew his sword, and turned to avenge himself, but almost before he had realised that there was nobody there, he and his horse were two black stones.

Who acts: dervish, nobody · What happens: draw, turn, avenge, realise, be · To what, where: sword, dervish, two black stones · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (dervish, nobody), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drew	nsubj
2	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 sword	nmod:poss
4	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drew	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 turned	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 turned	cc
7	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 drew	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 avenge	mark
9	avenge	avenge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 turned	xcomp
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 avenge	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 realised	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 realised	cc
13	almost	almost	ADV	_	17 realised	advmod
14	before	before	SCONJ	_	17 realised	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 realised	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 realised	aux
17	realised	realise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 drew	conj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 was	mark
19	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	20 was	expl
20	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 realised	ccomp
21	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	20 was	nsubj
22	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 nobody	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 stones	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 stones	nsubj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 horse	cc
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 horse	nmod:poss
27	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 he	conj
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 stones	cop
29	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 stones	nummod
30	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 stones	amod
31	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 nobody	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	draw	past	dervish	dervish's sword			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme
2	turn	past	dervish not said here				tree rules
3	avenge	to-infinitive	dervish not said here	dervish			tree rules
4	realise	past · perfect	dervish			almost property	tree rules
5	be	past	nobody		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is a	past	dervish	two black stones			tree rules

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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