The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 138
When the remedy that is in the handle of the club is warmed by your hand it will penetrate throughout your body.
Who acts: remedy, hand · What happens: be, warm, penetrate · To what, where: handle, remedy
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 (remedy, hand), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 13 warmed | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 remedy | det |
| 3 | remedy | remedy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 warmed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 handle | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 handle | cop |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 handle | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 handle | det |
| 8 | handle | handle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 remedy | acl:relcl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 club | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 club | det |
| 11 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 handle | nmod |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 warmed | aux:pass |
| 13 | warmed | warm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 penetrate | advcl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 hand | case |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 hand | nmod:poss |
| 16 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 warmed | obl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 penetrate | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 penetrate | aux |
| 19 | penetrate | penetrate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 20 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 22 body | case |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 body | nmod:poss |
| 22 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 penetrate | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 penetrate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the remedy | the handle | of the club | tree rules | |||
| 2 | warm | present · passive | your hand | the remedy | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | penetrate | future | remedy | throughout your body | vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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