The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 15

Though he alone knew where to find it, he could only receive it from the hand of another.

Who acts: magician · What happens: know, find, receive · To what, where: powder, hand

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magician), 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	Though	though	SCONJ	_	4 knew	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 knew	nsubj
3	alone	alone	ADV	_	4 knew	advmod
4	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 receive	advcl
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 find	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 find	mark
7	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 knew	xcomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 find	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 knew	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 receive	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 receive	aux
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 receive	advmod
13	receive	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 receive	obj
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 hand	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 hand	det
17	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 receive	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 another	case
19	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	17 hand	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 receive	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	past	magician			alone property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	find	to-infinitive	magician not said here	powder			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
3	receive	could	magician	powder	the hand of another		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from hand=Source

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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