The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 93

I bound her, but just as I was about to kill her she began to low most piteously, and I saw that her eyes were streaming with tears.

Who acts: I, cow, eyes · What happens: bind, be, kill, begin, low, see · To what, where: cow · 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 (I, cow, eyes), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 bound	nsubj
2	bound	bind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bound	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 about	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 about	cc
6	just	just	ADV	_	10 about	advmod
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 about	mark
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 about	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 about	cop
10	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bound	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 kill	mark
12	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 about	xcomp
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 kill	obj
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 began	nsubj
15	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 kill	advcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 low	mark
17	low	low	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 began	xcomp
18	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	19 piteously	advmod
19	piteously	piteously	ADV	_	17 low	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 saw	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 saw	cc
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 saw	nsubj
23	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bound	conj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 streaming	mark
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 eyes	nmod:poss
26	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 streaming	nsubj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 streaming	aux
28	streaming	stream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 saw	ccomp
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 tears	case
30	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 streaming	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 bound	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bind	past	I	cow		vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
2	is	past	I		about property	tree rules
3	kill	to-infinitive	I not said here	cow		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
4	begin	past	cow			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	low	to-infinitive	cow not said here		piteously property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	see	past	I			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	stream	past · progressive	cow's eyes		with tears	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with tear=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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