The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 45

Then he told them what had passed between him and the genius, and how he had given his word to return at the end of a year to be killed.

Who acts: husband · What happens: tell, pass, give, return, kill, word · To what, where: wife, husband, end · 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 (husband), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 told	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 passed	nsubj:pass
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 passed	aux
7	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 told	ccomp
8	between	between	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 passed	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 genius	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 genius	det
12	genius	genius	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 him	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 given	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 given	cc
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 given	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 given	nsubj:pass
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 given	aux
18	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 told	conj
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 word	nmod:poss
20	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 given	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 return	mark
22	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 given	advcl
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 end	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 end	det
25	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 return	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 year	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 year	det
28	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 end	nmod
29	to	to	PART	_	31 killed	mark
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 killed	aux:pass
31	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 return	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	husband		wife	then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	pass	past · perfect · passive					between husband	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme between he=Destination
3	give	past · perfect · passive		husband				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient word=Theme
4	return	to-infinitive				at the end of a year		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	kill	to-infinitive · passive						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
6	word		husband					nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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