The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 29
She also told her women, and bade them keep her secret well.
Who acts: ceremony · What happens: tell, keep · To what, where: women, bade · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ceremony), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 told | advmod |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 women | nmod:poss |
| 5 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 told | iobj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 keep | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 keep | cc |
| 8 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 keep | obl |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bade | obj |
| 10 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | conj |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 secret | nmod:poss |
| 12 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 keep | obj |
| 13 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 keep | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | ceremony | ceremony's women | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | keep | present | ceremony not said here | bade | well property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=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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