The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 32

On hearing my determination my ten hosts then took a sheep and killed it, and handed me a knife, which they said I should by-and-by find useful. "

Who acts: hosts, my · What happens: hear, take, kill, hand, say, find · To what, where: determination, sheep, knife, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hosts, my), 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	SCONJ	_	2 hearing	mark
2	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 took	advcl
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 determination	nmod:poss
4	determination	determination	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hearing	obj
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hosts	nmod:poss
6	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 hosts	nummod
7	hosts	host	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hearing	obj
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 took	advmod
9	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 sheep	det
11	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 took	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 killed	cc
13	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 took	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 killed	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 handed	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 handed	cc
17	handed	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 took	conj
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 handed	obj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 knife	det
20	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 handed	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 said	obj
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 said	nsubj
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 knife	parataxis
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 should	nsubj
26	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 said	ccomp
27	by	by	ADP	_	24 said	ccomp
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 by	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 find	cc
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 and	punct
31	by	by	ADP	_	32 find	case
32	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 said	conj
33	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 find	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 handed	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 handed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear	gerund		my determination				tree rules
2	take	past			a sheep	then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument sheep=Destination
3	kill	past		sheep				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	hand	past		a knife	me			vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination knife=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past	hosts = host	a knife				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent which=Topic
6	find	infinitive	hosts = host not said here				useful property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
7	determine		my					nom determination «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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