The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 9

Let me shoot him with an arrow," said a third; and certainly somebody would have had his way if I had not flung myself at the captain's feet and grasped tight hold of his dress.

Who acts: you, me, somebody, I · What happens: let, shoot, say, have, not fling, grasp · To what, where: me, use, third, way, myself, tight hold · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, me, somebody, 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	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 shoot	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 arrow	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 arrow	det
7	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 arrow	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 arrow	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shoot	parataxis
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 third	det
12	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 had	cc
15	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	19 had	advmod
16	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 had	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 had	aux
18	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 had	aux
19	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Let	parataxis
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 way	nmod:poss
21	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	obj
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 flung	mark
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 flung	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 flung	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 flung	advmod
26	flung	fling	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 had	advcl
27	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	26 flung	obl:unmarked
28	at	at	ADP	_	32 feet	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 captain	det
30	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 feet	nmod:poss
31	's	's	PART	_	30 captain	case
32	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 flung	obl:agent
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 grasped	cc
34	grasped	grasp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 had	conj
35	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 hold	amod
36	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 grasped	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 dress	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 dress	nmod:poss
39	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 hold	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	me		tree rules
2	shoot	infinitive	me not said here	use		tree rules
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past		a third	with a arrow	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent third=Theme with arrow=Manner
4	have in a quote	would · perfect	somebody	use's way	certainly property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient
5	not fling a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past · perfect	I	myself		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	grasp in a quote	past	somebody not said here	tight hold of use's dress		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus
7	hold in a quote			use's dress		nom hold «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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