The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 33
We must sew you into this sheep-skin," said they, "and then leave you.
Who acts: We, hosts · What happens: sew, say, leave · To what, where: you, sheep skin · 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 (We, hosts), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 sew | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 sew | aux |
| 3 | sew | sew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 sew | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 skin | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 skin | det |
| 7 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 skin | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 sheep | punct |
| 9 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sew | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sew | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sew | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sew | parataxis |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 leave | cc |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 leave | advmod |
| 18 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sew | conj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 leave | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sew | must | We | you | this sheep skin | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | hosts = host | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | leave | infinitive | We not said here | you | then | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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