The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 86

I with five others was taken into a hut, where we were made to sit upon the ground, and certain herbs were given to us, which the blacks made signs to us to eat.

Who acts: we, blacks · What happens: take, make, sit, give, eat · To what, where: I, hut, we, ground, certain herbs, us

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, blacks), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 taken	nsubj:pass
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 others	case
3	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 others	nummod
4	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 I	nmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 taken	aux:pass
6	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 hut	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hut	det
9	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 taken	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 made	punct
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 made	advmod
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 made	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 made	aux:pass
14	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 hut	acl:relcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 sit	mark
16	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 made	xcomp
17	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 ground	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ground	det
19	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sit	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 given	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 given	cc
22	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 herbs	amod
23	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 given	nsubj:pass
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 given	aux:pass
25	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 taken	conj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 us	case
27	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 given	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 made	punct
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 made	obj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 blacks	det
31	blacks	black	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 made	nsubj
32	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 taken	conj
33	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 made	obj
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 us	case
35	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 made	obl
36	to	to	PART	_	37 eat	mark
37	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 made	advcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	take	past · passive		I		a hut	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination
2	make	past · passive		we			tree rules
3	sit	to-infinitive	we not said here			the ground	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon ground=Location
4	give	past · passive		certain herbs	us		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to we=Recipient
5	make	past	the blacks	signs	us		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset which=Beneficiary sign=Product
6	eat	to-infinitive	the blacks not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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