The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 104

Here, slave; bring water, that we may wash our hands before meat!"

Who acts: we · What happens: bring, wash · To what, where: water, hands

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 slave	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Here	punct
3	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 bring	punct
5	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 slave	parataxis
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bring	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wash	punct
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 wash	mark
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 wash	nsubj
10	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 wash	aux
11	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 bring	conj
12	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hands	nmod:poss
13	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 wash	obj
14	before	before	ADP	_	15 meat	case
15	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wash	obl
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 slave	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 slave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	infinitive		water					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent water=Theme
2	wash	may	we	our hands			before meat		vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient

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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