The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 84

So saying, he ordered his guards to seize the Indian and throw him into prison.

Who acts: life, guards · What happens: say, order, seize, throw · To what, where: guards, Indian, life, prison · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (life, guards), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 saying	advmod
2	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 ordered	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 saying	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ordered	nsubj
5	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 guards	nmod:poss
7	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ordered	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 seize	mark
9	seize	seize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 ordered	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Indian	det
11	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 seize	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 throw	cc
13	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 seize	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 throw	obj
15	into	into	ADP	_	16 prison	case
16	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 throw	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ordered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund	life not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	order	past	life	life's guards		vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent guard=Recipient clause=Topic
3	seize not said to happen	to-infinitive	life's guards not said here	the Indian		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent indian=Theme
4	throw	infinitive	life's guards not said here	life	into prison result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer he=Theme into prison=Result

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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