The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 61
On the contrary, perhaps I have been sent here to deliver you out of this tomb, where you have been buried alive."
What happens: send, deliver, bury · To what, where: I, you, tomb
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: 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 contrary | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 contrary | det |
| 3 | contrary | contrary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sent | punct |
| 5 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 9 sent | advmod |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 sent | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 sent | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 sent | aux:pass |
| 9 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 contrary | conj |
| 10 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 sent | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 deliver | mark |
| 12 | deliver | deliver | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 sent | advcl |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 deliver | obj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 tomb | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 tomb | case |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 tomb | det |
| 17 | tomb | tomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 deliver | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 buried | punct |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 buried | advmod |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 buried | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 buried | aux |
| 22 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 buried | aux:pass |
| 23 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 tomb | acl:relcl |
| 24 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 buried | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 contrary | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 contrary | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | present · perfect · passive | I | here | perhaps property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | deliver | to-infinitive | you | this tomb | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent you=Theme out tomb=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | bury | present · perfect · passive | you | alive property | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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