The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 53

"Make your camels lie down in this open space," he said, "so that we can easily load them; then we will go to the treasure."

Who acts: you, camels, space, we · What happens: make, lie down, say, load, go · To what, where: open space, camels, treasure · 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, camels, space, we), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Make	punct
2	Make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 camels	nmod:poss
4	camels	camel	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lie	nsubj
5	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Make	parataxis
6	down	down	ADV	_	5 lie	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 space	case
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 space	det
9	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 space	amod
10	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 space	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 space	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lie	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 lie	punct
17	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	22 load	mark
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 so	fixed
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 load	nsubj
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 load	aux
21	easily	easily	ADV	_	22 load	advmod
22	load	load	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 lie	advcl
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 load	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 go	punct
25	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 go	advmod
26	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 go	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 go	aux
28	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Make	conj
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 treasure	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 treasure	det
31	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 go	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Make	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make in a quote	imperative	you not said here					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	lie down in a quote	present	your camels				down property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	space		this open space			vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in space=Manner
4	load in a quote	can	we	camels = camel			easily property	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	go in a quote	future	we		the treasure	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to treasure=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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