The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 45
I wandered about for a whole month without knowing where I was going, till at length I found myself on the outskirts of a beautiful city, watered by winding streams, which enjoyed an eternal spring.
Who acts: I, winding streams · What happens: wander, know, go, find, water, wind · To what, where: myself, outskirts · 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, winding streams), 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 wandered | nsubj |
| 2 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 2 wandered | advmod |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 month | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 month | det |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 month | amod |
| 7 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wandered | obl |
| 8 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 9 knowing | mark |
| 9 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 wandered | advcl |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 going | advmod |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 going | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 going | aux |
| 13 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 knowing | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 found | punct |
| 15 | till | till | ADP | _ | 17 length | case |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 length | case |
| 17 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 found | obl |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 found | nsubj |
| 19 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wandered | parataxis |
| 20 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 found | obj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 outskirts | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 outskirts | det |
| 23 | outskirts | outskirt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 found | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 city | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 city | det |
| 26 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 city | amod |
| 27 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 outskirts | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 watered | punct |
| 29 | watered | water | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 outskirts | acl |
| 30 | by | by | ADP | _ | 32 streams | case |
| 31 | winding | wind | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 streams | amod |
| 32 | streams | stream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 watered | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 enjoyed | punct |
| 34 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 enjoyed | nsubj |
| 35 | enjoyed | enjoy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 streams | acl:relcl |
| 36 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 spring | det |
| 37 | eternal | eternal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 spring | amod |
| 38 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 enjoyed | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | past | I | month | about property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | know | gerund | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | go | past · progressive | I | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | find | past | I | myself | the outskirts of a beautiful city | till length | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Topic | ||
| 5 | water | participle | the outskirts of a beautiful city not said here | by winding streams | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | wind | gerund | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | enjoy | past | winding streams | spring | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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