The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 22

"Go with them," said he, "and do as they do, but beware of losing sight of them, for if you strayed your life would be in danger."

Who acts: you, captain, others, life · What happens: go, say, do, beware, lose, stray · To what, where: sight, danger, others · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, captain, others, life), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
2	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Go	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Go	parataxis
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 do	cc
12	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Go	conj
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 do	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 do	nsubj
15	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 do	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 beware	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 beware	cc
18	beware	beware	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Go	conj
19	of	of	SCONJ	_	20 losing	mark
20	losing	lose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 beware	advcl
21	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 losing	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sight	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 strayed	punct
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	28 strayed	mark
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 strayed	mark
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 strayed	nsubj
28	strayed	stray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Go	conj
29	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 life	nmod:poss
30	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 danger	nsubj
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 danger	aux
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 danger	cop
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 danger	case
34	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 strayed	ccomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	imperative	you not said here			with others = other	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	captain				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	do in a quote	present	you not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	do in a quote	present	others = other				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	beware in a quote	infinitive	you not said here				vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	lose in a quote	gerund	you not said here	sight of others			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Eventuality
7	stray a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	you				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	is in a quote	would	your life		danger		tree rules
9	sight in a quote			others = other			nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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