The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 36

It was all so sudden that we lost our heads, and in order to divert suspicion from ourselves, we carried the body to the house of a Jewish physician.

Who acts: spite, we · What happens: be, lose, divert, carry · To what, where: heads, suspicion, body, house

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spite, we), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sudden	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sudden	cop
3	all	all	ADV	_	5 sudden	advmod
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 sudden	advmod
5	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 lost	mark
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 lost	nsubj
8	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sudden	advcl
9	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 heads	nmod:poss
10	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lost	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 divert	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 divert	cc
13	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	16 divert	mark
14	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 in	fixed
15	to	to	PART	_	16 divert	mark
16	divert	divert	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sudden	conj
17	suspicion	suspicion	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 divert	obj
18	from	from	ADP	_	19 ourselves	case
19	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 divert	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 carried	punct
21	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 carried	nsubj
22	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 divert	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 body	det
24	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 carried	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 house	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 house	det
27	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 carried	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 physician	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 physician	det
30	Jewish	Jewish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 physician	amod
31	physician	physician	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 house	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sudden	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	spite			all, sudden property	tree rules
2	lose	past	we	our heads			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Eventuality
3	divert	to-infinitive	spite not said here	suspicion		from ourselves	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus suspicion=Experiencer
4	carry	past	we	the body	the house of a Jewish physician		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent body=Theme to house=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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