The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 74
When you have succeeded in killing one come and tell me."
Who acts: you · What happens: succeed, kill, come, tell · To what, where: one, me · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 succeeded | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 succeeded | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 succeeded | aux |
| 4 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 6 killing | mark |
| 6 | killing | kill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 succeeded | advcl |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 killing | obj |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 killing | xcomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 tell | cc |
| 10 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 come | conj |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 tell | iobj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 succeeded | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 succeeded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | succeed | present · perfect | you | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | kill | gerund | you not said here | one | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | infinitive | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
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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