The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 100
"Take her away," I said to the steward, "and kill her; I cannot."
Who acts: steward, I, you · What happens: take away, say, kill · To what, where: cow, steward · 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 (steward, I, you), 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 | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 2 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Take | obj |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 Take | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Take | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 steward | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 steward | det |
| 11 | steward | steward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 kill | cc |
| 15 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Take | conj |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 kill | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 can | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 can | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 2 Take | advcl |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 can | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take away in a quote | imperative | the steward = steward not said here | cow | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | I | the steward | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to steward=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | kill in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | cow | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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