The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 27
The executioner made Aladdin kneel down, bandaged his eyes, and raised his scimitar to strike.
Who acts: executioner, Aladdin · What happens: make, kneel down, bandage, raise, strike · To what, where: eyes, scimitar
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (executioner, Aladdin), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 executioner | det |
| 2 | executioner | executioner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 kneel | nsubj |
| 5 | kneel | kneel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 made | xcomp |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 kneel | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bandaged | punct |
| 8 | bandaged | bandage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 bandaged | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 raised | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 raised | cc |
| 13 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 scimitar | nmod:poss |
| 15 | scimitar | scimitar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 raised | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 strike | mark |
| 17 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 raised | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the executioner | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | kneel down | infinitive | Aladdin | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | bandage | past | the executioner not said here | executioner's eyes | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme eye=Destination | ||||
| 4 | raise | past | the executioner not said here | executioner's scimitar | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | strike | to-infinitive | the executioner not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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