The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 91

The executioner knotted the cord firmly round the unfortunate man's neck and was just about to swing him into the air, when the Sultan's purveyor dashed through the crowd, and cried, panting, to the hangman,

Who acts: executioner, purveyor · What happens: knot, be, dash, cry, pant · To what, where: cord, air, crowd, hangman

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 (executioner, purveyor), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 executioner	det
2	executioner	executioner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knotted	nsubj
3	knotted	knot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cord	det
5	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knotted	obj
6	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	3 knotted	advmod
7	round	round	ADP	_	12 neck	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 neck	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 man	case
12	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knotted	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 swing	cc
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 swing	cop
15	just	just	ADV	_	16 about	advmod
16	about	about	ADV	_	18 swing	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 swing	mark
18	swing	swing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 knotted	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 swing	obj
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 air	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 air	det
22	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 swing	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 dashed	punct
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 dashed	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Sultan	det
26	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 purveyor	nmod:poss
27	's	's	PART	_	26 Sultan	case
28	purveyor	purveyor	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 dashed	nsubj
29	dashed	dash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 swing	advcl
30	through	through	ADP	_	32 crowd	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 crowd	det
32	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 dashed	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 cried	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 cried	cc
35	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knotted	parataxis
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 panting	punct
37	panting	pant	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 cried	advcl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 hangman	punct
39	to	to	ADP	_	41 hangman	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 hangman	det
41	hangman	hangman	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 panting	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	knot	past	the executioner	the cord		round the unfortunate man's neck; firmly property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cord=Patient
2	is	past	the executioner not said here		the air	about, swing property	tree rules
3	dash	past	the Sultan's purveyor		the crowd		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through crowd=Trajectory
4	cry speech: express	past					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	pant	gerund		the hangman			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hangman=Topic

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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