The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 2
"Arise," he cried in a terrible voice, "and let me kill you as you have killed my son!"
Who acts: you, he, me · What happens: arise, cry, let, kill · To what, where: terrible voice, me, you · 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 (you, he, me), 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 Arise | punct |
| 2 | Arise | arise | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cried | nsubj |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Arise | ccomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 voice | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 voice | det |
| 9 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 voice | amod |
| 10 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cried | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Arise | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 let | cc |
| 14 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Arise | conj |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 let | obj |
| 16 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 let | xcomp |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 kill | obj |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 killed | mark |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 killed | aux |
| 21 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 kill | advcl |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 son | nmod:poss |
| 23 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 killed | obj |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Arise | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Arise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise in a quote | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | he | a terrible voice | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in voice=Location | ||||
| 3 | let in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | kill in a quote | infinitive | me not said here | you | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 5 | kill in a quote | present · perfect · passive | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer son=Result |
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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