The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 68

So saying, he threw away the rubbish, and after having washed his nets clean of the dirt, he threw them for the third time.

Who acts: sire · What happens: say, throw away, wash, throw · To what, where: rubbish, nets · 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 (sire), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 saying	advmod
2	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 threw	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 saying	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 threw	nsubj
5	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 threw	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rubbish	det
8	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 threw	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 washed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 washed	cc
11	after	after	SCONJ	_	12 having	mark
12	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 washed	aux
13	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 threw	conj
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 nets	nmod:poss
15	nets	net	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 clean	nsubj
16	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 washed	parataxis
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 dirt	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 dirt	det
19	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 clean	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 threw	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 threw	nsubj
22	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 threw	conj
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 threw	obj
24	for	for	ADP	_	27 time	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 time	det
26	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	27 time	amod
27	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 threw	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund	sire not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	throw away	past	sire	the rubbish		away property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rubbish=Theme
3	wash	gerund · perfect	sire not said here				vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	throw	past	sire	nets = net	time		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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