The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 77
"I have had you sent for," said the king, "in order to free myself from you by taking your life."
Who acts: king, you · What happens: have, send, say, take · To what, where: you, life · 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 (king, you), 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 | _ | 4 had | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 had | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | aux |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 had | obj |
| 6 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 had | xcomp |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 sent | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 order | case |
| 16 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 free | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 free | mark |
| 18 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | ccomp |
| 19 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 18 free | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 you | case |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 free | obl |
| 22 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 23 taking | mark |
| 23 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 free | advcl |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 life | nmod:poss |
| 25 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 taking | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present · perfect | the king = king | you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | send in a quote | participle | you not said here | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | take in a quote | gerund | the king not said here | your life | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme |
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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