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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 24

The hangman, recognising the usher as one of the king's servants, cut down the tailor, and the usher, seeing the man was safe, sought the chief of police and gave him the Sultan's message.

Who acts: hangman, man · What happens: recognise, cut down, see, be, seek, give · To what, where: usher, tailor, chief, message · 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 (hangman, man), 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

detnsubjpunctacldetobjcaseoblcasedetnmod:posscasenmodpunctaclcompound:prtdetobjpunctccdetconjpunctacldetnsubjcopccomppunctdetobjcasenmodccconjiobjdetnmod:posscaseobjpunctrootTheDEThangmanNOUN,PUNCTrecognisingVERBtheDETusherNOUNasADPoneNUMofADPtheDETkingNOUN'sPARTservantsNOUN,PUNCTcutVERBdownADPtheDETtailorNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETusherNOUN,PUNCTseeingVERBtheDETmanNOUNwasAUXsafeADJ,PUNCTsoughtVERBtheDETchiefNOUNofADPpoliceNOUNandCCONJgaveVERBhimPRONtheDETSultanPROPN'sPARTmessageNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 hangmandet
2hangmanhangmanNOUNNumber=Sing30 soughtnsubj
3,,PUNCT_4 recognisingpunct
4recognisingrecogniseVERBVerbForm=Ger2 hangmanacl
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 usherdet
6usherusherNOUNNumber=Sing4 recognisingobj
7asasADP_8 onecase
8oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card4 recognisingobl
9ofofADP_13 servantscase
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 kingdet
11kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing13 servantsnmod:poss
12's'sPART_11 kingcase
13servantsservantNOUNNumber=Plur8 onenmod
14,,PUNCT_2 hangmanpunct
15cutcutVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass2 hangmanacl
16downdownADP_15 cutcompound:prt
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 tailordet
18tailortailorNOUNNumber=Sing15 cutobj
19,,PUNCT_22 usherpunct
20andandCCONJ_22 ushercc
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 usherdet
22usherusherNOUNNumber=Sing2 hangmanconj
23,,PUNCT_24 seeingpunct
24seeingseeVERBVerbForm=Ger2 hangmanacl
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 mandet
26manmanNOUNNumber=Sing28 safensubj
27wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 safecop
28safesafeADJDegree=Pos24 seeingccomp
29,,PUNCT_2 hangmanpunct
30soughtseekVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
31thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art32 chiefdet
32chiefchiefNOUNNumber=Sing30 soughtobj
33ofofADP_34 policecase
34policepoliceNOUNNumber=Plur32 chiefnmod
35andandCCONJ_36 gavecc
36gavegiveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin30 soughtconj
37himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs36 gaveiobj
38thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art39 Sultandet
39SultanSultanPROPNNumber=Sing41 messagenmod:poss
40's'sPART_39 Sultancase
41messagemessageNOUNNumber=Sing36 gaveobj
42..PUNCT_30 soughtpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1recognisegerundthe hangman and the usher not said herethe usheras one of the king's servantsvn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer usher=Stimulus as one=Attribute
2cut downparticiplethe hangman and the usher not said herethe tailorvn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tailor=Product
3seegerundthe hangman and the usher not said herevn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4ispastthe mansafe propertytree rules
5seekpastthe hangman and the usherthe chief of policevn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chief=Theme
6givepastthe hangman and the usher not said herethe Sultan's messageushervn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient message=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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