The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 82
Strike," he added to an executioner who was by, "and rid me of this assassin."
Who acts: king · What happens: add, rid · To what, where: Strike, me
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), 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 | Strike | strike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 added | obl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Strike | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 added | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 added | nsubj |
| 5 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 executioner | case |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 executioner | det |
| 8 | executioner | executioner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 added | obl |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 executioner | nmod |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 by | cop |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 who | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 who | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 who | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 rid | cc |
| 15 | rid | rid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 added | conj |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 rid | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 assassin | case |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 assassin | det |
| 19 | assassin | assassin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rid | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 added | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 added | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert in a quote | past | king | Strike | to a executioner | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent to executioner=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | rid | past | king not said here | me | of this assassin | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Source of assassin=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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