The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 45

Alnaschar rose too, and drawing the sabre from under his dress dealt the black such a blow on his neck that his head was severed from his body.

Who acts: Alnaschar, drawing · What happens: rise, draw, deal, sever · To what, where: sabre, dress, black blow, neck, head, body

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 (Alnaschar, drawing), 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	Alnaschar	Alnaschar	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 rose	nsubj
2	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	too	too	ADV	_	2 rose	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dealt	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 dealt	cc
6	drawing	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 dealt	csubj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sabre	det
8	sabre	sabre	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drawing	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	12 dress	case
10	under	under	ADP	_	12 dress	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 dress	nmod:poss
12	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drawing	obl
13	dealt	deal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rose	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 blow	det
15	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 blow	amod
16	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	18 blow	det:predet
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 blow	det
18	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dealt	obj
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 neck	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 neck	nmod:poss
21	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 blow	nmod
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 severed	obj
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 head	nmod:poss
24	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 severed	nsubj:pass
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 severed	aux:pass
26	severed	sever	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 blow	conj
27	from	from	ADP	_	29 body	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 body	nmod:poss
29	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 severed	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	rise	past	Alnaschar			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	draw	gerund		the sabre	Alnaschar's dress	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent sabre=Theme from dress=Initial_Location
3	deal	past	drawing	the black blow	Alnaschar's neck	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Theme
4	sever	past · passive		Alnaschar's head	Alnaschar's body	tree rules

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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