The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 74

"The best means, sire, to put your life in security, is to send for him at once, and to cut off his head directly he comes," said the vizir.

Who acts: best, vizir · What happens: mean, put, be, cut off, come, say · To what, where: sire, life, security, head · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (best, vizir), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 best	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 best	det
3	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sire	punct
6	sire	sire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 put	punct
8	to	to	PART	_	9 put	mark
9	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 means	conj
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 life	nmod:poss
11	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 put	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 security	case
13	security	security	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 put	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 send	punct
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 send	cop
16	to	to	PART	_	17 send	mark
17	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 put	conj
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 send	obl
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 once	case
21	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	17 send	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 cut	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 cut	cc
24	to	to	PART	_	25 cut	mark
25	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 put	parataxis
26	off	off	ADP	_	25 cut	compound:prt
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 head	nmod:poss
28	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 cut	obj
29	directly	directly	ADV	_	31 comes	advmod
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 comes	nsubj
31	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 cut	parataxis
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 comes	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 comes	punct
34	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 cut	parataxis
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 vizir	det
36	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 said	nsubj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mean in a quote	present	the best	sire			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sire=Topic
2	put in a quote	to-infinitive	the best not said here	your life	security		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent life=Theme in security=Destination
3	is in a quote	present	the best not said here			for vizir; send property	tree rules
4	cut off in a quote	to-infinitive		vizir's head			tree rules
5	come in a quote	present	vizir			directly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	say speech: assert	past	the vizir				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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