The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 90
Then have this bottle ready, and dash the water it contains over her, saying boldly, "Receive the reward of your crimes."
Who acts: you, water, your · What happens: have, dash, contain, say, receive, reward · To what, where: bottle, water, reward, crimes · 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 (you, water, 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 have | advmod |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 bottle | det |
| 4 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | obj |
| 5 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 have | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dash | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 dash | cc |
| 8 | dash | dash | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 have | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 water | det |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dash | obj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 contains | nsubj |
| 12 | contains | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 water | acl:relcl |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 her | case |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 contains | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 saying | punct |
| 16 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 dash | advcl |
| 17 | boldly | boldly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 saying | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Receive | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 Receive | punct |
| 20 | Receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 saying | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 reward | det |
| 22 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Receive | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 crimes | case |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 crimes | nmod:poss |
| 25 | crimes | crime | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 reward | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | imperative | you not said here | this bottle | then | ready property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottle=Patient | ||
| 2 | dash | infinitive | you not said here | the water | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | ||||
| 3 | contain | present | water | the water not said here | over daughter | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot water=Theme | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | you not said here | boldly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | receive in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | the reward of your crimes | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reward=Theme | ||||
| 6 | reward in a quote | your crimes | nom reward «event transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | incriminate in a quote | your | nom crime «act 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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