The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 25

He is a debtor of mine and must be brought here at once, or I will confiscate all your merchandise.

Who acts: captain, I · What happens: be, bring, confiscate · To what, where: debtor, merchandise

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (captain, I), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 debtor	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 debtor	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 debtor	det
4	debtor	debtor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 mine	case
6	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 debtor	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 brought	cc
8	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 brought	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 brought	aux:pass
10	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 debtor	conj
11	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 brought	advmod
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 once	case
13	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 brought	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 confiscate	punct
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 confiscate	cc
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 confiscate	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 confiscate	aux
18	confiscate	confiscate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 debtor	conj
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 merchandise	det:predet
20	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 merchandise	nmod:poss
21	merchandise	merchandise	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 confiscate	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 debtor	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	captain	a debtor		of mine	tree rules
2	bring	must · passive	captain not said here		here		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»
3	confiscate	future	I	your merchandise			vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent merchandise=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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