The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 35
Shoot the arrows at the statue, and the rider shall tumble into the sea, but the horse will fall down by thy side, and thou shalt bury him in the place from which thou tookest the bow and arrows.
Who acts: you, rider, horse, thou · What happens: shoot, tumble, fall down, bury, take · To what, where: arrows, statue, sea, horse, place, bow
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, rider, horse, thou), 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 | Shoot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 arrows | det |
| 3 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Shoot | obj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 statue | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 statue | det |
| 6 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Shoot | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tumble | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 tumble | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 rider | det |
| 10 | rider | rider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tumble | nsubj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 tumble | aux |
| 12 | tumble | tumble | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Shoot | conj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 sea | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sea | det |
| 15 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tumble | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fall | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 fall | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 horse | det |
| 19 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fall | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 fall | aux |
| 21 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Shoot | parataxis |
| 22 | down | down | ADP | _ | 21 fall | compound:prt |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 side | case |
| 24 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 side | nmod:poss |
| 25 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fall | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 bury | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 bury | cc |
| 28 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 30 bury | nsubj |
| 29 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 30 bury | aux |
| 30 | bury | bury | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Shoot | conj |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 bury | obj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 place | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 place | det |
| 34 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 bury | obl |
| 35 | from | from | ADP | _ | 36 which | case |
| 36 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 tookest | obl |
| 37 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 38 tookest | nsubj |
| 38 | tookest | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 place | acl:relcl |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 bow | det |
| 40 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 tookest | obj |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 arrows | cc |
| 42 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 bow | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Shoot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shoot | imperative | you not said here | the arrows | the statue | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme at statue=Destination | |||
| 2 | tumble | shall | the rider | the sea | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into sea=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | fall down | future | the horse | by thy side | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by side=Location | ||||
| 4 | bury | shall | thou | horse | the place | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in place=Destination | |||
| 5 | take | past | thou | the bow and arrows | the place | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent bow=Theme from which=Initial_Location |
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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