The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 78

Then we went back to the forest together and dug a mighty trench in which we buried the elephant I had killed, in order that when it became a skeleton my master might return and secure its tusks.

Who acts: we, trench, master · What happens: go back, dig, bury, kill, become, return · To what, where: mighty trench, order, elephant, I, skeleton, tusks

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 (we, trench, master), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 went	advmod
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 forest	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 forest	det
7	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
8	together	together	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 dug	cc
10	dug	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 trench	det
12	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 trench	amod
13	trench	trench	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dug	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 which	case
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 buried	obl
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 buried	nsubj
17	buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 trench	acl:relcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 elephant	det
19	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 buried	obj
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 killed	nsubj:pass
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 killed	aux
22	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 buried	ccomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 order	punct
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 order	case
25	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dug	obl
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 became	obj
27	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 became	advmod
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 became	nsubj
29	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 order	acl:relcl
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 skeleton	det
31	skeleton	skeleton	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 became	obj
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 master	nmod:poss
33	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 return	nsubj
34	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 return	aux
35	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 skeleton	acl:relcl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 secure	cc
37	secure	secure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 return	conj
38	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 tusks	nmod:poss
39	tusks	tusk	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 secure	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go back	past	we			then	to the forest result; together property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to forest=Result
2	dig	past	we not said here	a mighty trench	order			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent trench=Theme in order=Location
3	bury	past	we	the elephant	a mighty trench			tree rules
4	kill	past · perfect · passive		I				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	become	past	trench	order				tree rules
6	return	might	my master	a skeleton not said here				vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skeleton=Theme
7	secure	infinitive	my master not said here	trench's tusks				vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition tusk=Theme

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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