The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 137

There the physician approached him with the bat he had made, saying, "Take this, sire, and strike the ball till you feel your hand and whole body in a glow.

Who acts: physician, king, you · What happens: approach, make, say, take, strike, feel · To what, where: king, bat, this, ball, hand, glow · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (physician, king, 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 approached	expl
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 physician	det
3	physician	physician	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 approached	nsubj
4	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 approached	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 bat	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bat	det
8	bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 approached	obl
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 made	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 made	aux
11	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 bat	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 saying	punct
13	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 approached	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Take	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 Take	punct
16	Take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 saying	ccomp
17	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 Take	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sire	punct
19	sire	sire	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Take	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 strike	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 strike	cc
22	strike	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 Take	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 ball	det
24	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 strike	obj
25	till	till	SCONJ	_	27 feel	mark
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 feel	nsubj
27	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 strike	advcl
28	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 hand	nmod:poss
29	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 feel	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 body	cc
31	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 body	amod
32	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hand	conj
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 glow	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 glow	det
35	glow	glow	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 feel	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 approached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	approach	past	the physician	king	there	with the bat	vn confront-98 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Theme with bat=Instrument
2	make	past · perfect	king	the bat not said here			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bat=Product
3	say speech: assert	gerund	the physician not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	take in a quote	infinitive		this			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument this=Theme sire=Destination
5	strike in a quote	infinitive		the ball			vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Patient
6	feel in a quote	present	you	your hand and whole body	a glow		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in glow=Location

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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