The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 41

I have killed the sick man whom they brought me; and if the sacred Ass of Esdras does not come to my aid I am lost!

Who acts: man, sacred Ass · What happens: kill, bring, not come, lose · To what, where: I, me, sick man, aid

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, sacred Ass), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 killed	nsubj:pass
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 killed	aux
3	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 killed	obj
7	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 brought	obj
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 brought	nsubj
9	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 man	acl:relcl
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 brought	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 come	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 come	cc
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 come	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Ass	det
15	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Ass	amod
16	Ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 come	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 Esdras	case
18	Esdras	Esdras	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Ass	nmod
19	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 come	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 come	advmod
21	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 killed	parataxis
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 aid	case
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 aid	nmod:poss
24	aid	aid	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 come	obl
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 lost	nsubj
26	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 lost	aux:pass
27	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 aid	acl:relcl
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 killed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	kill	present · perfect · passive		I			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer man=Result
2	bring	past	man	me	the sick man		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent whom=Destination i=Theme
3	not come a condition, not said to happen	present · do-support	the sacred Ass of Esdras			my aid	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to aid=Initial_Location
4	lose	present · passive		I			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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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