The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 102

At last I grew angry at being captive for so long, and I vowed that if anyone would release me I would kill him at once, and would only allow him to choose in what manner he should die.

Who acts: I, anyone, genius · What happens: grow, be, vow, release, kill, allow · To what, where: last, me, genius, manner

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, anyone, genius), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grew	obl
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 grew	nsubj
4	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grew	xcomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 captive	case
7	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 captive	cop
8	captive	captive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 angry	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 long	case
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 long	advmod
11	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 grew	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 vowed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 vowed	cc
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 vowed	nsubj
15	vowed	vow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 grew	conj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 kill	mark
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 release	mark
18	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	20 release	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 release	aux
20	release	release	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 kill	advcl
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 release	obj
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 kill	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 kill	aux
24	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 vowed	ccomp
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 kill	obj
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 once	case
27	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	24 kill	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 allow	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 allow	cc
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 allow	aux
31	only	only	ADV	_	32 allow	advmod
32	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 grew	conj
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 allow	iobj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 choose	mark
35	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 allow	xcomp
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 manner	case
37	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	38 manner	det
38	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 choose	obl
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 die	nsubj
40	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 die	aux
41	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 manner	acl:relcl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	past	I			last	angry property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location
2	is	gerund					captive property	tree rules
3	vow	past	I					tree rules
4	release a condition, not said to happen	would	anyone	me				vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer i=Source
5	kill	would	I	genius				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	allow	would	I not said here		genius			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer he=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
7	choose not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here			what manner		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	die	should	genius	what manner not said here				tree rules

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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