The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 31

This has been the law upon our island from the earliest ages--the living husband goes to the grave with his dead wife, the living wife with her dead husband.

Who acts: This, living husband · What happens: be, go · To what, where: law, grave

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, living husband), 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	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 law	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 law	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 law	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 law	det
5	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 island	case
7	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 island	nmod:poss
8	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 law	nmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	12 ages	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ages	det
11	earliest	early	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 ages	amod
12	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 island	nmod
13	--	--	PUNCT	_	17 goes	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 husband	det
15	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 husband	compound
16	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 goes	nsubj
17	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 law	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 grave	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 grave	det
20	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 goes	obl
21	with	with	ADP	_	24 wife	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 wife	nmod:poss
23	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 wife	amod
24	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 goes	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 wife	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 wife	det
27	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 wife	compound
28	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 wife	conj
29	with	with	ADP	_	32 husband	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 husband	nmod:poss
31	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 husband	amod
32	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 wife	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 law	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present · perfect	This	the law				upon our island from the earliest ages	tree rules
2	go	present	the living husband			the grave		with husband's dead wife and the living wife with wife's dead husband	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to grave=Initial_Location

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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