The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 14
But now you know the truth set him free, and let me die in his stead."
Who acts: you, truth, me · What happens: know, set, let, die · To what, where: man, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, truth, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 know | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 know | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 truth | det |
| 6 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 set | nsubj |
| 7 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | ccomp |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 set | obj |
| 9 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 set | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 let | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 let | cc |
| 12 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 know | conj |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 let | obj |
| 14 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 let | xcomp |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 stead | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 stead | nmod:poss |
| 17 | stead | stead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 die | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | you | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | set | past | the truth | man | free property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient he=Result | |||
| 3 | let | infinitive | you not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | die | infinitive | me not said here | in man's stead | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in stead=Attribute |
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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