The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 65

Then sprinkling it over me she said, "If you were born dog, remain dog; but if you were born man, by virtue of this water resume your proper form."

Who acts: girl, your · What happens: sprinkle, say, bear, remain, resume, form · To what, where: hand, you, dog, proper form · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, your), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 sprinkling	advmod
2	sprinkling	sprinkle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 said	ccomp
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sprinkling	obj
4	over	over	ADP	_	5 me	case
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 sprinkling	obl
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 born	punct
10	If	if	SCONJ	_	13 born	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 born	nsubj:pass
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 born	aux:pass
13	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 said	conj
14	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 born	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 remain	punct
16	remain	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 born	conj
17	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 remain	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 resume	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 resume	cc
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 born	mark
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 born	nsubj:pass
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 born	aux:pass
23	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 resume	advcl
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 born	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 born	punct
26	by	by	ADP	_	27 virtue	case
27	virtue	virtue	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 resume	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 water	case
29	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 water	det
30	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 virtue	nmod
31	resume	resume	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
32	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 form	nmod:poss
33	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 form	amod
34	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 resume	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 resume	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 resume	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sprinkle	gerund		hand	then	over me	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme over i=Destination
2	say speech: assert	past	girl				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	bear a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past · passive		you			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	remain in a quote	present		dog			vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme dog=Attribute
5	bear a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past · passive		you			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6	resume in a quote	infinitive		your proper form		by virtue of this water	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Eventuality
7	form in a quote		your				nom form «communication transitive»: poss=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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