The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 40

I defended myself to the last, wounded though I was, but at length, seeing that resistance was hopeless, and that the ambassador and all our followers were made prisoners, I put spurs to my horse and rode away as fast as I could, till the poor beast fell dead from a wound in his side.

Who acts: I, resistance, poor beast · What happens: defend, wound, be, see, make, put · To what, where: myself, length, ambassador, spurs, wound · 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 (I, resistance, poor beast), 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 defended	nsubj
2	defended	defend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 defended	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 last	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 last	det
6	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 defended	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wounded	punct
8	wounded	wound	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 last	conj
9	though	though	SCONJ	_	15 length	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 length	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 length	cop
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 length	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 length	cc
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 length	case
15	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wounded	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 seeing	punct
17	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 defended	advcl
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 hopeless	mark
19	resistance	resistance	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hopeless	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 hopeless	cop
21	hopeless	hopeless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 seeing	ccomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 put	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 put	cc
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 made	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 ambassador	det
26	ambassador	ambassador	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 made	nsubj:pass
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 followers	cc
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 followers	det:predet
29	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 followers	nmod:poss
30	followers	follower	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 ambassador	conj
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 made	aux:pass
32	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 put	advcl
33	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 made	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 made	punct
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 put	nsubj
36	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 defended	conj
37	spurs	spur	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 put	obj
38	to	to	ADP	_	40 horse	case
39	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 horse	nmod:poss
40	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 put	obl
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 rode	cc
42	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 defended	conj
43	away	away	ADV	_	42 rode	advmod
44	as	as	ADV	_	45 fast	advmod
45	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	42 rode	advmod
46	as	as	SCONJ	_	48 could	mark
47	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 could	nsubj
48	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 fast	advcl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 fell	punct
50	till	till	SCONJ	_	54 fell	mark
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 beast	det
52	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 beast	amod
53	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 fell	nsubj
54	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 rode	conj
55	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 fell	xcomp
56	from	from	ADP	_	58 wound	case
57	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 wound	det
58	wound	wound	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 fell	obl
59	in	in	ADP	_	61 side	case
60	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	61 side	nmod:poss
61	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 fell	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 defended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	defend	past	I	myself		to the last	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Beneficiary
2	wound	participle	I not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	I		length		tree rules
4	see	gerund	I not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	past	resistance			hopeless property	tree rules
6	make	past · passive		the ambassador and our followers			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary prisoner=Product
7	put	past	I	spurs		to my horse	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent spur=Goal
8	ride away	past	I not said here			away, fast property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
9	fall	past	the poor beast		a wound	in beast's side; dead property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in side=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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