The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 96

To punish me, he shut me up in this vase of copper, and he put on the leaden cover his seal, which is enchantment enough to prevent my coming out.

Who acts: genius, seal, my · What happens: punish, shut up, put, be, prevent, come out · To what, where: me, vase, leaden cover, enchantment

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 (genius, seal, my), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 punish	mark
2	punish	punish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 shut	advcl
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 punish	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 punish	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 shut	nsubj
6	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 shut	obj
8	up	up	ADP	_	6 shut	compound:prt
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 vase	case
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 vase	det
11	vase	vase	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shut	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 copper	case
13	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 vase	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 put	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 put	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 put	nsubj
17	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 shut	conj
18	on	on	ADP	_	21 cover	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 cover	det
20	leaden	leaden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 cover	amod
21	cover	cover	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 put	obl
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 seal	nmod:poss
23	seal	seal	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cover	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 enchantment	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 enchantment	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 enchantment	cop
27	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 seal	appos
28	enough	enough	ADV	_	27 enchantment	advmod
29	to	to	PART	_	30 prevent	mark
30	prevent	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 put	advcl
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 coming	nsubj
32	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 prevent	xcomp
33	out	out	ADP	_	32 coming	compound:prt
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 shut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	punish	to-infinitive	genius not said here	me			vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
2	shut up	past	genius	me	this vase of copper		vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
3	put	past	genius		the leaden cover genius's seal		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on cover=Destination
4	is a	present	genius's seal	enchantment		enough property	tree rules
5	prevent	to-infinitive	genius not said here				vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer clause=Eventuality
6	come out	gerund	my				vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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