The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 25
I have kept you locked up," said the Sultan, "so that in case my son was lost, your life should pay the penalty.
Who acts: I, Sultan, life · What happens: keep, lock up, say, lose, pay · To what, where: you, penalty · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (I, Sultan, life), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 kept | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 kept | aux |
| 3 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 kept | obj |
| 5 | locked | lock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 kept | conj |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 locked | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 kept | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 kept | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Sultan | det |
| 11 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Sultan | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Sultan | punct |
| 14 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 26 pay | mark |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 lost | mark |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 19 son | case |
| 17 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 in | fixed |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 son | nmod:poss |
| 19 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lost | obl |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 lost | aux:pass |
| 21 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 pay | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 lost | punct |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 life | nmod:poss |
| 24 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 pay | nsubj |
| 25 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 pay | aux |
| 26 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 penalty | det |
| 28 | penalty | penalty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 pay | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present · perfect | I | you | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lock up | participle | I not said here | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the Sultan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | lose | past · passive | your life not said here | in my son | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: in son=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | pay | should | your life | the penalty | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penalty=Asset |
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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