The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 35

This he tied round him with his sash, and, disguising himself as an old woman, he took a sabre, which he hid under his dress.

Who acts: This, door, sabre · What happens: tie, disguise, take, hide · To what, where: door, sabre, dress

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 (This, door, sabre), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 tied	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tied	nsubj
3	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	round	round	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tied	obl
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 sash	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 sash	nmod:poss
8	sash	sash	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tied	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 took	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 took	cc
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 disguising	punct
12	disguising	disguise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 took	ccomp
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 disguising	obj
14	as	as	ADP	_	17 woman	case
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 woman	det
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 woman	amod
17	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 disguising	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 disguising	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 took	nsubj
20	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tied	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 sabre	det
22	sabre	sabre	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 took	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 hid	punct
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 hid	nsubj
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 hid	nsubj
26	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 sabre	acl:relcl
27	under	under	ADP	_	29 dress	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 dress	nmod:poss
29	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hid	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tie	past	This			round door; with door's sash	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient with sash=Co-Patient
2	disguise	gerund	door not said here	door		as a old woman	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme himself=Destination
3	take	past	door	a sabre			vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent sabre=Theme clause=Attribute
4	hide	past	a sabre		door's dress		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under dress=Location

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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