The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 32

Knowing this, the Indian deliberately steered the horse right above the city, in order that his revenge for his unjust imprisonment might be all the quicker and sweeter.

Who acts: Indian, revenge, horse · What happens: know, steer, be, revenge, imprison · To what, where: this, horse, city, order

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 (Indian, revenge, horse), 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	Knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 steered	advcl
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	1 Knowing	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Knowing	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Indian	det
5	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 steered	nsubj
6	deliberately	deliberately	ADV	_	7 steered	advmod
7	steered	steer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 horse	det
9	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 steered	obj
10	right	right	ADV	_	13 city	advmod
11	above	above	ADP	_	13 city	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 city	det
13	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 steered	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 order	punct
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 order	case
16	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 steered	obl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 quicker	mark
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 revenge	nmod:poss
19	revenge	revenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 quicker	nsubj
20	for	for	ADP	_	23 imprisonment	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 imprisonment	nmod:poss
22	unjust	unjust	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 imprisonment	amod
23	imprisonment	imprisonment	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 revenge	nmod
24	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 quicker	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 quicker	cop
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 quicker	det:predet
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 quicker	det
28	quicker	quick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 order	acl:relcl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 sweeter	cc
30	sweeter	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 quicker	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 steered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	gerund	the Indian not said here	this			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	steer	past	the Indian	the horse	the city	in order; deliberately property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Theme above city=Destination
3	is	might	horse's revenge for horse's unjust imprisonment	order not said here		quick property	tree rules
4	be		horse's revenge for horse's unjust imprisonment not said here				tree rules
5	revenge		horse			for horse's unjust imprisonment	nom revenge «act transitive»: poss=agent for=obl
6	imprison		horse				nom imprisonment «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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