The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 44
Miserable crone," he said to my brother, "get up and come with me," and turned to lead the way to the place of murder.
Who acts: Miserable crone · What happens: say, get up, come, turn, lead · To what, where: way, place · 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 (Miserable crone), 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 | Miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 crone | amod |
| 2 | crone | crone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 crone | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 crone | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 brother | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 brother | nmod:poss |
| 9 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 get | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 get | punct |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 get | compound:prt |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 come | cc |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 get | conj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 me | case |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 come | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 get | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 get | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 turned | cc |
| 21 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 lead | mark |
| 23 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 turned | xcomp |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 way | det |
| 25 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lead | obj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 place | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 place | det |
| 28 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lead | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 murder | case |
| 30 | murder | murder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 place | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Miserable crone | to my brother | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to brother=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | get up | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | come | infinitive | with me | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | turn in a quote | past | Miserable crone not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | lead in a quote | to-infinitive | Miserable crone not said here | the way | the place of murder | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent way=Theme to place=Destination |
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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