The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 15

I avoided the towns till I reached the kingdom of the famous and powerful Caliph, Haroun-al-Raschid, when I had no further reason to fear my enemies.

Who acts: I · What happens: avoid, reach, have, fear · To what, where: towns, kingdom, further reason, enemies

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 (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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 avoided	nsubj
2	avoided	avoid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 towns	det
4	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 avoided	obj
5	till	till	SCONJ	_	7 reached	mark
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 reached	nsubj
7	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 avoided	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 kingdom	det
9	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reached	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	15 Caliph	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Caliph	det
12	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Caliph	amod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 powerful	cc
14	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 famous	conj
15	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 kingdom	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Haroun	punct
17	Haroun	Haroun	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Caliph	flat
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 al	punct
19	al	Al	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Haroun	appos
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 Raschid	punct
21	Raschid	Raschid	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 al	flat
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 had	punct
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 had	advmod
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 had	nsubj
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 avoided	parataxis
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 reason	det
27	further	further	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 reason	amod
28	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 had	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 fear	mark
30	fear	fear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 reason	acl
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 enemies	nmod:poss
32	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 fear	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 avoided	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	avoid	past	I	the towns	vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent town=Location
2	reach	past	I	the kingdom of the famous Caliph	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme
3	have	past	I	no further reason	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient
4	fear	to-infinitive	I not said here	my enemies	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer enemy=Stimulus

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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