The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 36
Then I lost consciousness for several minutes.
Who acts: I · What happens: lose · To what, where: consciousness
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 (I), 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 | 3 lost | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 lost | nsubj |
| 3 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | consciousness | consciousness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lost | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 minutes | case |
| 6 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 minutes | amod |
| 7 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lost | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | I | consciousness | then; minute | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consciousness=Eventuality |
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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