The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 44
Luckily my wound was only a slight one, and after binding it up as well as I could, I walked on for the rest of the day, till I reached a cave at the foot of a mountain, where I passed the night in peace, making my supper off some fruits I had gathered on the way.
Who acts: wound, I, my · What happens: be, bind up, walk on, reach, pass, make · To what, where: slight one, wound, cave, foot, peace, supper
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 (wound, 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 | Luckily | luckily | ADV | _ | 8 one | advmod |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 wound | nmod:poss |
| 3 | wound | wound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 one | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 one | cop |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 one | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 one | det |
| 7 | slight | slight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 one | amod |
| 8 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 walked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 walked | cc |
| 11 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 12 binding | mark |
| 12 | binding | bind | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 walked | advcl |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 binding | obj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 binding | compound:prt |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 well | advmod |
| 16 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 binding | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 could | mark |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 could | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 well | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 binding | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 walked | nsubj |
| 22 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 one | parataxis |
| 23 | on | on | ADV | _ | 22 walked | advmod |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 rest | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 rest | det |
| 26 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 walked | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 day | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 day | det |
| 29 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 rest | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 reached | punct |
| 31 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 33 reached | mark |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 reached | nsubj |
| 33 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 walked | parataxis |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 cave | det |
| 35 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 reached | obj |
| 36 | at | at | ADP | _ | 38 foot | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 foot | det |
| 38 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 reached | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 mountain | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 mountain | det |
| 41 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 foot | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 passed | punct |
| 43 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 45 passed | advmod |
| 44 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 passed | nsubj |
| 45 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 reached | conj |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 night | det |
| 47 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 48 | in | in | ADP | _ | 49 peace | case |
| 49 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 passed | obl |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 making | punct |
| 51 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 45 passed | advcl |
| 52 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 53 supper | nmod:poss |
| 53 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 making | obj |
| 54 | off | off | ADP | _ | 56 fruits | case |
| 55 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 56 fruits | det |
| 56 | fruits | fruit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 51 making | obl |
| 57 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 59 gathered | nsubj |
| 58 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 59 gathered | aux |
| 59 | gathered | gather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 56 fruits | acl:relcl |
| 60 | on | on | ADP | _ | 62 way | case |
| 61 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 62 way | det |
| 62 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 gathered | obl |
| 63 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | my wound | a slight one | luckily property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | bind up | gerund | I not said here | wound | well property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 3 | walk on | past | I | for the rest of the day | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | reach | past | I | a cave | the foot of a mountain | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent cave=Theme at foot=Asset | |||
| 5 | pass | past | I | peace | night | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in peace=Location | |||
| 6 | make | gerund | I not said here | my supper | off some fruits | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset supper=Product | |||
| 7 | gather | past · perfect | I | some fruits not said here | the way | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Theme | |||
| 8 | wound | my | nom wound «state 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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