The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 60

We live in this castle together, in the way that you have seen, but at the end of every year secret duties call us away for the space of forty days.

Who acts: We, way, secret duties · What happens: live, see, call away · To what, where: castle, us, end

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, way, secret duties), 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	2 live	nsubj
2	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 castle	case
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 castle	det
5	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 live	obl
6	together	together	ADV	_	2 live	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 way	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 way	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 way	det
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 live	parataxis
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 seen	nsubj
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 seen	nsubj
13	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 seen	aux
14	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 way	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 call	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 call	cc
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 end	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 end	det
19	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 call	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 year	case
21	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	22 year	det
22	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 end	nmod
23	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 duties	amod
24	duties	duty	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 call	nsubj
25	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 live	parataxis
26	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 call	obj
27	away	away	ADV	_	25 call	advmod
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 space	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 space	det
30	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 call	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 days	case
32	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 days	nummod
33	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 space	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 live	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	We		this castle		together property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in castle=Location
2	see	present · perfect	the way					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	call away speech: assert	present	secret duties	us		at the end of every year	for the space of forty days; away property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent we=Theme for space=Beneficiary

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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