The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 14

Though we were many and our enemy was alone it did not occur to us to kill him, and indeed we should have found that a hard task, even if we had thought of it, and no plan could we devise to deliver ourselves.

Who acts: we, enemy, plan · What happens: be, not be, kill, find, think, devise · To what, where: us, giant, many, hard task, ourselves · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, enemy, plan), 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	Though	though	SCONJ	_	4 many	mark
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 many	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 many	cop
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 found	nsubj:pass
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 occur	cc
6	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 enemy	nmod:poss
7	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 occur	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 occur	cop
9	alone	alone	ADV	_	8 was	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 occur	nsubj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 occur	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 occur	advmod
13	occur	occur	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 many	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 us	case
15	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 occur	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 kill	mark
17	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 occur	advcl
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 kill	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 found	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 found	cc
21	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	25 found	advmod
22	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 found	nsubj
23	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 found	aux
24	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 found	aux
25	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 task	mark
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 task	det
28	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 task	amod
29	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 found	xcomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 thought	punct
31	even	even	ADV	_	35 thought	advmod
32	if	if	SCONJ	_	35 thought	mark
33	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 thought	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 thought	aux
35	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 task	acl:relcl
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 it	case
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 thought	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 devise	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 devise	cc
40	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	41 plan	det
41	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 devise	nsubj
42	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 devise	aux
43	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 devise	nsubj
44	devise	devise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 thought	ccomp
45	to	to	PART	_	46 deliver	mark
46	deliver	deliver	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 devise	xcomp
47	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	46 deliver	obj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	we			many property	tree rules
2	not is	past · do-support	our enemy		us	occur property	tree rules
3	kill	to-infinitive	our enemy not said here	giant			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	find	should · perfect · passive		many		indeed property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
5	think speech: other a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	we	a hard task not said here		of enemy	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent task=Attribute clause=Theme
6	devise	could	no plan				tree rules
7	deliver	to-infinitive	no plan not said here	ourselves			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ourselves=Patient

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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