The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 26
I shall now give orders to have all the warehouses where your cargo is placed under the royal seal, and they will only be opened when you have brought me the man I ask for.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: give, have, place, open, bring, ask · To what, where: orders, warehouses, cargo, royal seal, man, me
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 (I, you), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 give | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | aux |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 give | advmod |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 give | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 have | mark |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 give | xcomp |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 warehouses | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 warehouses | det |
| 10 | warehouses | warehouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 have | obj |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 placed | advmod |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 cargo | nmod:poss |
| 13 | cargo | cargo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 placed | aux:pass |
| 15 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 warehouses | acl |
| 16 | under | under | ADP | _ | 19 seal | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 seal | det |
| 18 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 seal | amod |
| 19 | seal | seal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 placed | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 opened | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 opened | cc |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 opened | aux |
| 24 | only | only | ADV | _ | 26 opened | advmod |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 opened | aux:pass |
| 26 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 give | parataxis |
| 27 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 brought | advmod |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 brought | nsubj |
| 29 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 brought | aux |
| 30 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 opened | advcl |
| 31 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 brought | obj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 man | det |
| 33 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 brought | obj |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 ask | nsubj |
| 35 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 man | acl:relcl |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 ask | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | shall | I | orders | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | to-infinitive | I not said here | all warehouses | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warehouse=Patient | ||||
| 3 | place | present · passive | your cargo | the royal seal | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme under seal=Destination | ||||
| 4 | open | future · passive | warehouses = warehouse | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | bring | present · perfect | you | the man | me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination man=Theme | |||
| 6 | ask speech: ask | present | I | the man not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient |
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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