The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 23
Also that the Indian should be taken from prison, and brought before him.
What happens: take, bring · To what, where: Indian, prison
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Also | also | ADV | _ | 7 taken | advmod |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 taken | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Indian | det |
| 4 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 taken | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 taken | aux:pass |
| 7 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 prison | case |
| 9 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 taken | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 brought | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 brought | cc |
| 12 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 taken | conj |
| 13 | before | before | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 brought | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | should · passive | the Indian | prison | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from prison=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | bring | past | before Sultan | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before he=Destination |
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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