The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 33
When I have done this I will come back here, and you shall kill me."
Who acts: I, you · What happens: do, come back, kill · To what, where: this, me
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 (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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 done | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 done | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | aux |
| 4 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 come | advcl |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 done | obj |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 come | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 come | aux |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 here | advmod |
| 10 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 come | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 kill | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 kill | cc |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 kill | nsubj |
| 14 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 kill | aux |
| 15 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 come | conj |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 kill | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 come | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present · perfect | I | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | come back | future | I | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | kill | shall | you | me | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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