The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 28

Thinking he was dead, the black ordered the Greek slave to bring him some salt, and between them they rubbed it into his wounds, thus giving him acute agony, though he had the presence of mind to give no sign of life.

Who acts: black, door, Greek slave, senses · What happens: think, be, order, bring, rub, give · To what, where: Greek slave, salt, door, wounds, acute agony, presence · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (black, door, Greek slave, senses), 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	Thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 ordered	advcl
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dead	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dead	cop
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Thinking	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Thinking	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 black	det
7	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ordered	nsubj
8	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 slave	det
10	Greek	Greek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 slave	amod
11	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ordered	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 bring	mark
13	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 ordered	xcomp
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 bring	obj
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 salt	det
16	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bring	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 rubbed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 rubbed	cc
19	between	between	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 rubbed	obl
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 rubbed	nsubj
22	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 ordered	conj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 rubbed	obj
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 wounds	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 wounds	nmod:poss
26	wounds	wound	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 rubbed	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 giving	punct
28	thus	thus	ADV	_	29 giving	advmod
29	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 rubbed	advcl
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 giving	iobj
31	acute	acute	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 agony	amod
32	agony	agony	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 giving	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 had	punct
34	though	though	SCONJ	_	36 had	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 had	nsubj
36	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 giving	parataxis
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 presence	det
38	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 had	obj
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 mind	case
40	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 presence	nmod
41	to	to	PART	_	42 give	mark
42	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 had	advcl
43	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	44 sign	det
44	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 give	obj
45	of	of	ADP	_	46 life	case
46	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 sign	nmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 ordered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	gerund	the black not said here					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	door				dead property	tree rules
3	order	past	the black	the Greek slave				vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent slave=Recipient clause=Topic
4	bring not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Greek slave not said here	some salt	door			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination salt=Theme
5	rub	past	senses = sens	salt		door's wounds	between senses = sens	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme between they=Destination
6	give	gerund	senses = sens not said here	acute agony	door		thus property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient agony=Theme
7	have	past	door	the presence of mind				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent presence=Patient
8	give	to-infinitive	door not said here	no sign of life				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Theme
9	wound		door					nom wound «state transitive»: poss=agent
10	sign			life				nom sign «communication transitive»: of=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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