The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 71

In the evening, when he returns home, lie in wait for him and pretend that you will slay him.

Who acts: vizir, you · What happens: return, lie, pretend, slay · To what, where: wait, vizir

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (vizir, 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 evening	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 evening	det
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lie	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 evening	punct
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 returns	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 returns	nsubj
7	returns	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 lie	advcl
8	home	home	ADV	_	7 returns	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lie	punct
10	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 wait	case
12	wait	wait	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lie	obl
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 lie	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 pretend	cc
16	pretend	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 lie	conj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 slay	mark
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 slay	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 slay	aux
20	slay	slay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 pretend	xcomp
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 slay	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 lie	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	present	vizir				home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lie	present			wait	evening	for vizir	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in wait=Location
3	pretend	present						tree rules
4	slay	future	you	vizir				vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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