The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 14
Go back to him; tell him who I am, and order him to come without fail to the palace to-morrow, after the hour of evening prayer."
Who acts: you, I · What happens: go back, tell, be, order, come · To what, where: oath, palace · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Go | advmod |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Go | obl |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 tell | punct |
| 6 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 tell | iobj |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 tell | ccomp |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 who | nsubj |
| 10 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 who | cop |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 order | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 order | cc |
| 13 | order | order | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 order | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 come | mark |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 order | xcomp |
| 17 | without | without | ADP | _ | 18 fail | case |
| 18 | fail | fail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 come | obl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 palace | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 palace | det |
| 21 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 come | obl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 morrow | case |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 to | punct |
| 24 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 palace | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 hour | punct |
| 26 | after | after | ADP | _ | 28 hour | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 hour | det |
| 28 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 come | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 prayer | case |
| 30 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 prayer | compound |
| 31 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 hour | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | imperative | you not said here | oath | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to he=Result | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | oath | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | order | infinitive | you not said here | oath | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | come not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | the palace to morrow | hour | without fail | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location |
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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