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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 63

I am determined to stop this barbarous practice of the Sultan's, and to deliver the girls and mothers from the awful fate that hangs over them."

Who acts: I, awful fate · What happens: be, stop, deliver, hang, practice · To what, where: barbarous practice, girls, awful fate, Sultan

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, awful fate), 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

nsubjcopmarkxcompdetamodobjcasedetnmodcasepunctccmarkconjdetobjccconjcasedetamodoblnsubjacl:relclcaseoblpunctpunctrootIPRONamAUXdeterminedADJtoPARTstopVERBthisDETbarbarousADJpracticeNOUNofADPtheDETSultanPROPN'sPART,PUNCTandCCONJtoPARTdeliverVERBtheDETgirlsNOUNandCCONJmothersNOUNfromADPtheDETawfulADJfateNOUNthatPRONhangsVERBoverADPthemPRON.PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs3 determinednsubj
2ambeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin3 determinedcop
3determineddeterminedADJDegree=Posrootroot
4totoPART_5 stopmark
5stopstopVERBVerbForm=Inf3 determinedxcomp
6thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem8 practicedet
7barbarousbarbarousADJDegree=Pos8 practiceamod
8practicepracticeNOUNNumber=Sing5 stopobj
9ofofADP_11 Sultancase
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 Sultandet
11SultanSultanPROPNNumber=Sing8 practicenmod
12's'sPART_11 Sultancase
13,,PUNCT_16 deliverpunct
14andandCCONJ_16 delivercc
15totoPART_16 delivermark
16deliverdeliverVERBVerbForm=Inf5 stopconj
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 girlsdet
18girlsgirlNOUNNumber=Plur16 deliverobj
19andandCCONJ_20 motherscc
20mothersmotherNOUNNumber=Plur18 girlsconj
21fromfromADP_24 fatecase
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 fatedet
23awfulawfulADJDegree=Pos24 fateamod
24fatefateNOUNNumber=Sing16 deliverobl
25thatthatPRONPronType=Rel26 hangsnsubj
26hangshangVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin24 fateacl:relcl
27overoverADP_28 themcase
28themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs26 hangsobl
29..PUNCT_3 determinedpunct
30""PUNCT_3 determinedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispresentIdetermined propertytree rules
2stopto-infinitiveI not said herethis barbarous practice of the Sultanvn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality practice=Eventuality
3deliverto-infinitiveI not said herethe girls and mothersthe awful fatevn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent girl=Theme from fate=Initial_Location
4hangpresentthe awful fateover delightvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over they=Location
5practicethe Sultannom practice «act transitive»: of=patient

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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