The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 92

If no live being goes their way, they then betake themselves to the cemeteries, and feed upon the dead bodies.

Who acts: live, lairs · What happens: go, betake, feed · To what, where: way, lairs

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (live, lairs), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 goes	mark
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 live	det
3	live	live	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 goes	nsubj
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 goes	nsubj
5	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 betake	advcl
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 way	nmod:poss
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 goes	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 goes	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 betake	nsubj
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 betake	advmod
11	betake	betake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 betake	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 cemeteries	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cemeteries	det
15	cemeteries	cemetery	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 betake	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 feed	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 feed	cc
18	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 betake	conj
19	upon	upon	ADP	_	22 bodies	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bodies	det
21	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 bodies	amod
22	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 feed	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 betake	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go a condition, not said to happen	present	no live	lairs's way			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
2	betake	present	lairs = lair	lairs = lair	then	to the cemeteries	tree rules
3	feed	present	lairs = lair not said here			upon the dead bodies	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent

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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