The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 16

"Loosen the Jewish doctor," said he to the hangman, "and string up the tailor instead, since he has made confession of his crime.

Who acts: death · What happens: loosen, say, make, confess, incriminate · To what, where: Jewish doctor, hangman, confession, crime · 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 (death), 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 Loosen	punct
2	Loosen	loosen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 doctor	det
4	Jewish	Jewish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 doctor	amod
5	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Loosen	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Loosen	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Loosen	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 hangman	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hangman	det
12	hangman	hangman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hangman	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 hangman	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 string	cc
16	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hangman	conj
17	up	up	ADP	_	19 tailor	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 tailor	det
19	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 string	nmod
20	instead	instead	ADV	_	8 said	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 made	punct
22	since	since	SCONJ	_	25 made	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 made	nsubj
24	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 made	aux
25	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 said	parataxis
26	confession	confession	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 made	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 crime	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 crime	nmod:poss
29	crime	crime	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 confession	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	loosen in a quote	infinitive		the Jewish doctor			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent doctor=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	death		the hangman and string up the tailor	instead property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to hangman=Recipient clause=Topic
3	make in a quote	present · perfect	death	confession of death's crime			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent confession=Product
4	confess in a quote			death's crime			nom confession «communication transitive»: of=patient
5	incriminate in a quote		death				nom crime «act 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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