The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 54
Next he opened the dead man's mouth, and by the help of a pair of pincers drew the bone from his throat.
Who acts: man · What happens: open, draw, help · To what, where: mouth, bone, throat, pair
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 (man), 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 | Next | next | ADV | _ | 3 opened | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 opened | nsubj |
| 3 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 man | case |
| 8 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 opened | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 drew | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 drew | cc |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 help | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 help | det |
| 13 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 drew | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 pair | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 pair | det |
| 16 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 help | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 pincers | case |
| 18 | pincers | pincer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 pair | nmod |
| 19 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 opened | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bone | det |
| 21 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 drew | obj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 throat | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 throat | nmod:poss |
| 24 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 drew | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | man | the dead man's mouth | next property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme | |||
| 2 | draw | past | man not said here | the bone | man's throat | by the help of a pair of pincers | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent bone=Theme from throat=Initial_Location | ||
| 3 | help | a pair of pincers | nom help «act 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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