The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 73

This island and all adjoining it are inhabited by hairy savages, who are certain to attack us, and whatever these dwarfs may do we dare not resist, since they swarm like locusts, and if one of them is killed the rest will fall upon us, and speedily make an end of us."

Who acts: hairy savages, dwarfs, rest · What happens: adjoin, inhabit, be, attack, do, not dare · To what, where: island, us, whatever, one, end

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hairy savages, dwarfs, rest), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 island	det
2	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 inhabited	nsubj:pass
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 adjoining	cc
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 adjoining	advmod
5	adjoining	adjoin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 island	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 adjoining	obj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 inhabited	aux:pass
8	inhabited	inhabit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 savages	case
10	hairy	hairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 savages	amod
11	savages	savage	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 inhabited	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 certain	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 certain	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 certain	cop
15	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 savages	acl:relcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 attack	mark
17	attack	attack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 certain	advcl
18	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 attack	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 do	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 do	cc
21	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 do	obj
22	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	23 dwarfs	det
23	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 do	nsubj
24	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 do	aux
25	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 inhabited	parataxis
26	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 do	obj
27	dare	dare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 do	conj
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 dare	advmod
29	resist	resist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 dare	xcomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 swarm	punct
31	since	since	SCONJ	_	33 swarm	mark
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 swarm	nsubj
33	swarm	swarm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 resist	advcl
34	like	like	ADP	_	35 locusts	case
35	locusts	locust	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 swarm	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 killed	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 killed	cc
38	if	if	SCONJ	_	43 killed	mark
39	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	43 killed	nsubj:pass
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 them	case
41	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 one	nmod
42	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 killed	aux:pass
43	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 inhabited	conj
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 rest	det
45	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 fall	nsubj
46	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 fall	aux
47	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 killed	ccomp
48	upon	upon	ADP	_	49 us	case
49	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 fall	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 make	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 make	cc
52	speedily	speedily	ADV	_	53 make	advmod
53	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 inhabited	parataxis
54	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 end	det
55	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 make	obj
56	of	of	ADP	_	57 us	case
57	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	55 end	nmod
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	53 make	punct
59	"	"	PUNCT	_	53 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	adjoin	gerund	hairy savages not said here	island		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme
2	inhabit	present · passive	hairy savages	this island		tree rules
3	is	present	hairy savages		certain property	tree rules
4	attack	to-infinitive	hairy savages not said here	us		vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient
5	do	may	this dwarfs	whatever		tree rules
6	not dare	infinitive	this dwarfs not said here			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	not resist	infinitive	this dwarfs not said here			tree rules
8	swarm	present	dwarfs = dwarf		like locusts	vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme
9	kill a condition, not said to happen	present · passive		one of dwarfs		tree rules
10	fall	future	the rest		upon us	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon we=Location
11	make	infinitive		a end of us	speedily property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset end=Product

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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