The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 81
When everything had been moved and placed under his roof he ordered my brother to leave the town and never more to enter it on peril of his life, fearing that if he returned he might seek justice from the Caliph.
Who acts: judge, roof, more · What happens: move, place, order, leave, enter, fear · To what, where: everything, roof, brother, town, peril, justice
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 (judge, roof, more), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 moved | advmod |
| 2 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 moved | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 moved | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 moved | aux:pass |
| 5 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 placed | cc |
| 7 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 moved | conj |
| 8 | under | under | ADP | _ | 10 roof | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 roof | nmod:poss |
| 10 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 placed | obl |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 ordered | nsubj |
| 12 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 roof | acl:relcl |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 brother | nmod:poss |
| 14 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ordered | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 leave | mark |
| 16 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 ordered | xcomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 town | det |
| 18 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 leave | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 enter | cc |
| 20 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 21 more | advmod |
| 21 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 enter | nsubj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 enter | mark |
| 23 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 moved | conj |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 enter | obj |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 peril | case |
| 26 | peril | peril | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 enter | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 life | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 life | nmod:poss |
| 29 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 peril | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 fearing | punct |
| 31 | fearing | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 enter | advcl |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 returned | mark |
| 33 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 35 returned | mark |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 returned | nsubj |
| 35 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 fearing | ccomp |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 seek | nsubj |
| 37 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 seek | aux |
| 38 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 returned | ccomp |
| 39 | justice | justice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 seek | obj |
| 40 | from | from | ADP | _ | 42 Caliph | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 Caliph | det |
| 42 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 seek | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 moved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | past · perfect · passive | everything | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | place | participle | judge's roof | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent under roof=Destination | |||||
| 3 | order | past | judge | judge's roof not said here | my brother | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 4 | leave not said to happen | to-infinitive | judge's roof not said here | the town | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Theme | ||||
| 5 | enter | to-infinitive | more | town | peril of judge's life | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination | |||
| 6 | fear | gerund | more not said here | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | return a condition, not said to happen | past | judge | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | seek | might | judge | justice | the Caliph | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent justice=Theme | |||
| 9 | peril | judge's life | nom peril «state 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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