The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 10

"Then," said the genius, "I tell you you have killed my son, for whilst you were throwing about the stones, my son passed by, and one of them struck him in the eye and killed him.

Who acts: genius, you, one · What happens: say, tell, kill, throw, pass by, strike · To what, where: you, son, genius, eye · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (genius, you, one), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Then	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 genius	det
7	genius	genius	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tell	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 tell	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 tell	nsubj
11	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 tell	iobj
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 killed	nsubj:pass
14	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 killed	aux
15	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 tell	ccomp
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 son	nmod:poss
17	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 killed	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 throwing	punct
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 throwing	mark
20	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	23 throwing	mark
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 throwing	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 throwing	aux
23	throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 killed	advcl
24	about	about	ADP	_	26 stones	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 stones	det
26	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 throwing	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 son	punct
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 son	nmod:poss
29	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 throwing	obl
30	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 son	acl
31	by	by	ADP	_	30 passed	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 struck	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 struck	cc
34	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 struck	nsubj
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 them	case
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 one	nmod
37	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 struck	obj
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 eye	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 eye	det
41	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 struck	obl
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 killed	cc
43	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 struck	conj
44	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 killed	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the genius				then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	present	the genius = genius		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
3	kill in a quote	present · perfect · passive		you					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer son=Result
4	throw in a quote	past · progressive	you	my son				about the stones	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent about stone=Destination
5	pass by in a quote	participle		my son not said here					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	strike in a quote	past	one of stones	genius		the eye			vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument
7	kill in a quote	past	one of stones not said here	genius					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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