The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 68
And, they added, when the statue of the brass horse on the top of the mountain of adamant is thrown into the sea by Agib, the son of Cassib, then beware, for fifty days later your son shall fall by his hand!
Who acts: slaves, Agib, son · What happens: add, throw, beware, fall · To what, where: statue, sea
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 (slaves, Agib, son), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 added | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 added | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 added | nsubj |
| 4 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 thrown | punct |
| 6 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 22 thrown | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 statue | det |
| 8 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 horse | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 horse | det |
| 11 | brass | brass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 horse | compound |
| 12 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 statue | nmod |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 top | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 top | det |
| 15 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 horse | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 mountain | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 mountain | det |
| 18 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 top | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 adamant | case |
| 20 | adamant | adamant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 mountain | nmod |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 thrown | aux:pass |
| 22 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 added | parataxis |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 sea | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sea | det |
| 25 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 thrown | obl |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 Agib | case |
| 27 | Agib | Agib | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 thrown | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 son | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 son | det |
| 30 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Agib | appos |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Cassib | case |
| 32 | Cassib | Cassib | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 son | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 beware | punct |
| 34 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 35 beware | advmod |
| 35 | beware | beware | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 thrown | advcl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 fall | punct |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 days | case |
| 38 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 days | nummod |
| 39 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 fall | obl |
| 40 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 44 fall | advmod |
| 41 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 son | nmod:poss |
| 42 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 fall | nsubj |
| 43 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 fall | aux |
| 44 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 beware | conj |
| 45 | by | by | ADP | _ | 47 hand | case |
| 46 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 hand | nmod:poss |
| 47 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 fall | obl |
| 48 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 added | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | past | slaves = slave | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | throw | present · passive | Agib | the statue of the brass horse on the top of the mountain of adamant | into the sea result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer subject=Theme into sea=Result | |||
| 3 | beware | infinitive | Agib not said here | then | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | fall | shall | your son | day | by Son's hand; late property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by hand=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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