The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 12

My uncle fought hard for his life, but was soon overpowered, and when he fell I managed to escape through a secret passage, and took refuge with an officer whom I knew I could trust.

Who acts: uncle, I · What happens: fight, overpower, fall, manage, escape, take · To what, where: secret passage, refuge, officer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (uncle, 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 uncle	nmod:poss
2	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fought	nsubj
3	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 fought	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 life	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 life	nmod:poss
7	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fought	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 overpowered	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 overpowered	cc
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 overpowered	aux:pass
11	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 overpowered	advmod
12	overpowered	overpower	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 fought	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 managed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 managed	cc
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 fell	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 fell	nsubj
17	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 managed	advcl
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 managed	nsubj
19	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fought	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 escape	mark
21	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 managed	xcomp
22	through	through	ADP	_	25 passage	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 passage	det
24	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 passage	amod
25	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 escape	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 took	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 took	cc
28	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fought	conj
29	refuge	refuge	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 took	obj
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 officer	case
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 officer	det
32	officer	officer	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 took	obl
33	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 knew	obj
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 knew	nsubj
35	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 officer	acl:relcl
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 trust	nsubj
37	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 trust	aux
38	trust	trust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 knew	ccomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fight	past	My uncle			for uncle's life; hard property	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	overpower	past · passive	My uncle not said here			soon property	tree rules
3	fall	past	uncle				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	manage	past	I				vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	escape	to-infinitive	I not said here		a secret passage		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through passage=Initial_Location
6	take	past	My uncle not said here	refuge		with a officer	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent refuge=Theme
7	know	past	I	a officer			tree rules
8	trust	could	I				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: 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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