The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 105
Then, as before, he came down with the swiftness of lightning, and we touched the ground on a mountain top.
Who acts: earth, we · What happens: come down, touch · To what, where: ground
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 (earth, we), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 came | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 4 before | case |
| 4 | before | before | ADV | _ | 7 came | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | down | down | ADV | _ | 7 came | advmod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 swiftness | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 swiftness | det |
| 11 | swiftness | swiftness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 lightning | case |
| 13 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 swiftness | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 touched | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 touched | cc |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 touched | nsubj |
| 17 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ground | det |
| 19 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 touched | obj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 top | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 top | det |
| 22 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 top | compound |
| 23 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 touched | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come down | past | earth | then | with the swiftness of lightning; before, down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | touch | past | we | the ground | on a mountain top | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent ground=Experiencer on top=Theme |
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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