The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 86

This then must be the elephants' burying place," I said to myself, "and they must have brought me here that I might cease to persecute them, seeing that I want nothing but their tusks, and here lie more than I could carry away in a lifetime."

Who acts: This, forest, I · What happens: bury, be, say, bring, cease, persecute · To what, where: burying place, forest, elephants, nothing, more, lifetime · 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 (This, forest, I), 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	9 place	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 place	advmod
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 place	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 place	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 elephants	det
6	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 place	nmod:poss
7	'	's	PART	_	6 elephants	case
8	burying	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 place	amod
9	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 place	parataxis
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 myself	case
15	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 said	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 brought	cc
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 brought	nsubj:pass
20	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 brought	aux
21	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 brought	aux
22	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 said	conj
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 brought	obj
24	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 brought	advmod
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 cease	mark
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 cease	nsubj
27	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 cease	aux
28	cease	cease	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 brought	advcl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 persecute	mark
30	persecute	persecute	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 cease	xcomp
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 persecute	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 seeing	punct
33	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 persecute	advcl
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 want	mark
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 want	nsubj
36	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 seeing	advcl
37	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	36 want	obj
38	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 tusks	cc
39	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 tusks	nmod:poss
40	tusks	tusk	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 nothing	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 lie	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 lie	cc
43	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	44 lie	advmod
44	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 place	parataxis
45	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	44 lie	obj
46	than	than	SCONJ	_	49 carry	mark
47	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	49 carry	nsubj
48	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 carry	aux
49	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 more	advcl
50	away	away	ADV	_	49 carry	advmod
51	in	in	ADP	_	53 lifetime	case
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 lifetime	det
53	lifetime	lifetime	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 carry	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 place	punct
55	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 place	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	gerund							vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	must	This	the elephants's burying place			then		tree rules
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past	forest		forest				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to myself=Recipient
4	bring	must · perfect · passive		elephants = elephant		here			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme i=Destination
5	cease	might	I						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
6	persecute	to-infinitive	I not said here	elephants = elephant					vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
7	see	gerund	I not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	want	present	I	nothing					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot nothing=Theme
9	lie	present		more		here			vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location more=Theme
10	carry away	could	I			a lifetime		away property	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in lifetime=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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