The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 38

Both used their javelins with such skill that, directly they arrived within striking range, the lion and the bear fell, pierced through and through.

Who acts: sorts, bear · What happens: use, arrive, strike, fall, pierce · To what, where: javelins, range

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 43. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sorts, bear), 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	Both	both	CCONJ	_	2 used	cc:preconj
2	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 javelins	nmod:poss
4	javelins	javelin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 used	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 skill	case
6	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 skill	amod
7	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 used	obl
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 used	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 arrived	punct
10	directly	directly	ADV	_	12 arrived	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 arrived	nsubj
12	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 used	parataxis
13	within	within	ADP	_	14 striking	mark
14	striking	strike	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 arrived	advcl
15	range	range	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 striking	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lion	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 lion	det
18	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 range	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 fell	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bear	det
21	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fell	nsubj
22	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 range	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 pierced	punct
24	pierced	pierce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 range	conj
25	through	through	ADV	_	24 pierced	advmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 through	cc
27	through	through	ADV	_	25 through	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	use	past		sorts's javelins	with such skill	tree rules
2	arrive	past	sorts = sort		directly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	strike	gerund	sorts = sort not said here	range and the lion		vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent range=Patient
4	fall	past	the bear			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	pierce	participle	sorts = sort not said here		through property	vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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