The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 48
But they held tight, and having brought him to his victim's grave, they proceeded to kill him, after which they tore open his body, scattered the inside and once more flew away.
Who acts: birds · What happens: hold, have, bring, proceed, kill, tore · To what, where: two, grave, open body, inside
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 (birds), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 held | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 held | nsubj |
| 3 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | tight | tight | ADV | _ | 3 held | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 brought | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 brought | cc |
| 7 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 brought | reparandum |
| 8 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 held | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 brought | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 grave | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 victim | nmod:poss |
| 12 | victim | victim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 grave | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 victim | case |
| 14 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brought | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 proceeded | punct |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 proceeded | nsubj |
| 17 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 held | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 kill | mark |
| 19 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 proceeded | xcomp |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 kill | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 tore | punct |
| 22 | after | after | ADP | _ | 23 which | case |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 tore | obl |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 tore | nsubj |
| 25 | tore | tore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 proceeded | parataxis |
| 26 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 body | amod |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 body | nmod:poss |
| 28 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 tore | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 scattered | punct |
| 30 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 tore | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 inside | det |
| 32 | inside | inside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 scattered | obj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 flew | cc |
| 34 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 36 flew | advmod |
| 35 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 36 flew | advmod |
| 36 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 scattered | conj |
| 37 | away | away | ADV | _ | 36 flew | advmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | birds = bird | tight property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | gerund | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | bring | past | birds = bird not said here | two | two's victim's grave | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to grave=Destination | |||
| 4 | proceed | past | birds = bird | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | kill | to-infinitive | birds = bird not said here | two | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 6 | tore | past | birds = bird | two's open body | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | scatter | past | birds = bird not said here | the inside | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent inside=Theme | ||||
| 8 | fly away | past | birds = bird not said here | away, once property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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