The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 18
It was sunset, and I paused for a little to look about me, and to decide which way to turn my steps.
Who acts: length, I, my · What happens: be, pause, look, decide, turn, step · To what, where: sunset, way, steps
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 (length, I, my), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sunset | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sunset | cop |
| 3 | sunset | sunset | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 paused | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 paused | cc |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 paused | nsubj |
| 7 | paused | pause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sunset | acl:relcl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 little | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 little | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 paused | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 look | mark |
| 12 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 paused | advcl |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 14 me | case |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 look | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 decide | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 decide | cc |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 decide | mark |
| 18 | decide | decide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 look | conj |
| 19 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 20 way | det |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 decide | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 turn | mark |
| 22 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 decide | xcomp |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 steps | nmod:poss |
| 24 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 turn | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sunset | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | length | sunset | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pause | past | I | sunset not said here | for a little | tree rules | |||
| 3 | look | to-infinitive | I not said here | about me | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about i=Theme | ||||
| 4 | decide | to-infinitive | I not said here | which way | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: agent=Agent way=Co-Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | turn not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | my steps | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent step=Theme | ||||
| 6 | step | my | nom step «act transitive»: poss=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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