The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 68
Go," she said, "and bring men to carry them away."
Who acts: you, smarting · What happens: go, say, bring, carry away · To what, where: men · 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 (you, smarting), 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 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | parataxis |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 bring | cc |
| 9 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 bring | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 carry | mark |
| 12 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 bring | advcl |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 carry | obj |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 carry | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | smarting | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | bring | infinitive | you not said here | men | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument man=Destination | ||||
| 4 | carry away | to-infinitive | you not said here | men = man | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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