The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 104
As he spoke he seized me violently by the arm; the roof of the palace opened to make way for us, and we mounted up so high into the air that the earth looked like a little cloud.
Who acts: man, roof, we, earth · What happens: speak, seize, open, make, mount up, look · To what, where: me, way, air · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, roof, we, earth), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 spoke | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 spoke | nsubj |
| 3 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 seized | nsubj |
| 5 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spoke | ccomp |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 seized | obj |
| 7 | violently | violently | ADV | _ | 5 seized | advmod |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 arm | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 arm | det |
| 10 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seized | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 opened | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 roof | det |
| 13 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 opened | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 palace | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 palace | det |
| 16 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 roof | nmod |
| 17 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spoke | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 make | mark |
| 19 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 opened | xcomp |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 make | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 us | case |
| 22 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 make | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 mounted | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 mounted | cc |
| 25 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 mounted | nsubj |
| 26 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 opened | conj |
| 27 | up | up | ADP | _ | 26 mounted | compound:prt |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 high | advmod |
| 29 | high | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 mounted | advmod |
| 30 | into | into | ADP | _ | 32 air | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 air | det |
| 32 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 mounted | obl |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 looked | mark |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 earth | det |
| 35 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 looked | nsubj |
| 36 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 mounted | advcl |
| 37 | like | like | ADP | _ | 40 cloud | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 cloud | det |
| 39 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 cloud | amod |
| 40 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 looked | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | man | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | seize | past | man | me | by the arm; violently property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 3 | open | past | the roof of the palace | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | the roof of the palace not said here | way | for us | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent way=Product for we=Beneficiary | |||
| 5 | mount up | past | we | the air | high property | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into air=Location | |||
| 6 | look | past | the earth | like a little cloud | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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