The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 95

"You are going," he said to the chief of police, "to kill an innocent man, for it is impossible that he should have murdered a creature who was dead already.

Who acts: chief, purveyor, creature · What happens: go, say, kill, be, murder · To what, where: chief, innocent man, creature · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (chief, purveyor, creature), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 going	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 going	aux
4	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 said	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 chief	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 chief	det
11	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 police	case
13	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 chief	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 kill	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 kill	punct
16	to	to	PART	_	17 kill	mark
17	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 man	det
19	innocent	innocent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 man	amod
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 kill	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 impossible	punct
22	for	for	ADP	_	25 impossible	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 impossible	expl
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 impossible	cop
25	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 kill	parataxis
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 murdered	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 murdered	nsubj
28	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 murdered	aux
29	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 murdered	aux
30	murdered	murder	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 impossible	advcl
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 creature	det
32	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 murdered	obj
33	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 dead	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 dead	cop
35	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 creature	acl
36	already	already	ADV	_	35 dead	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	present · progressive	the chief of police = chief				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	purveyor		the chief of police		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to chief=Recipient clause=Topic
3	kill in a quote	to-infinitive		a innocent man			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
4	is in a quote	present				impossible property	tree rules
5	murder in a quote	should · perfect	purveyor	a creature			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Patient
6	is in a quote	past	a creature			dead property	tree rules

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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