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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 13

Persecuted by ill-fortune, and stricken with grief, there seemed to be only one means of safety left to me.

What happens: persecute, seem, be, mean, leave · To what, where: one, safety, me

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: 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

nsubjcaseamodpunctoblpunctccconjcaseoblpunctexplparataxismarkcopadvmodxcompcaseoblaclcaseoblpunctrootPersecutedVERBbyADPillADJ-PUNCTfortuneNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJstrickenADJwithADPgriefNOUN,PUNCTtherePRONseemedVERBtoPARTbeAUXonlyADVoneNUMmeansVERBofADPsafetyNOUNleftVERBtoADPmePRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1PersecutedpersecuteVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass18 meansnsubj
2bybyADP_5 fortunecase
3illillADJDegree=Pos5 fortuneamod
4--PUNCT_3 illpunct
5fortunefortuneNOUNNumber=Sing1 Persecutedobl
6,,PUNCT_8 strickenpunct
7andandCCONJ_8 strickencc
8strickenstrickenADJDegree=Pos1 Persecutedconj
9withwithADP_10 griefcase
10griefgriefNOUNNumber=Sing8 strickenobl
11,,PUNCT_13 seemedpunct
12theretherePRONPronType=Dem13 seemedexpl
13seemedseemVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 strickenparataxis
14totoPART_17 onemark
15bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf17 onecop
16onlyonlyADV_17 oneadvmod
17oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card13 seemedxcomp
18meansmeanVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
19ofofADP_20 safetycase
20safetysafetyNOUNNumber=Sing18 meansobl
21leftleaveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass20 safetyacl
22totoADP_23 mecase
23meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs21 leftobl
24..PUNCT_18 meanspunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1persecuteparticipleby ill fortunevn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2seempasttherevn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3is ato-infinitiveonetree rules
4meanpresentof safetyvn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
5leaveparticiplesafety not said heremevn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location

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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