The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 73
Hide yourself in this great tree, and shoot at all that pass you.
Who acts: you, that · What happens: hide, shoot, pass · To what, where: yourself, great tree, all, you
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, that), 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 | Hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 1 Hide | obj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 tree | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 tree | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tree | amod |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hide | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 shoot | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 shoot | cc |
| 9 | shoot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Hide | parataxis |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 all | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 shoot | obl |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 pass | nsubj |
| 13 | pass | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 shoot | conj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 pass | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hide | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | imperative | you not said here | yourself | this great tree | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient in tree=Location | |||
| 2 | shoot | present | all | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at all=Destination | |||||
| 3 | pass | present | that | you | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme you=Trajectory |
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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