The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 95

He carried a basin, on which he spread the covering of the book, and presenting it to the king, said: "Sire, take this book, and when my head is cut off, let it be placed in the basin on the covering of this book; as soon as it is there, the blood will cease to flow.

Who acts: physician, Sire, covering, blood · What happens: carry, spread, present, say, take, cut off · To what, where: basin, covering, king, book, 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 (physician, Sire, covering, blood), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 carried	nsubj
2	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 basin	det
4	basin	basin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carried	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 spread	punct
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 which	case
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 spread	obl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 spread	nsubj
9	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 carried	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 covering	det
11	covering	covering	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 spread	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 book	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 book	det
14	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 covering	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 said	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 said	cc
17	presenting	present	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 said	ccomp
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 presenting	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 king	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 king	det
21	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 presenting	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 presenting	punct
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 carried	conj
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 Sire	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 Sire	punct
26	Sire	sire	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 take	nsubj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Sire	punct
28	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 said	ccomp
29	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 book	det
30	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 take	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 cut	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 cut	cc
33	when	when	SCONJ	_	37 cut	mark
34	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 head	nmod:poss
35	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 cut	nsubj:pass
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 cut	aux:pass
37	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 carried	parataxis
38	off	off	ADP	_	37 cut	compound:prt
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 let	punct
40	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 cut	advcl
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 let	obj
42	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 placed	aux:pass
43	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 let	xcomp
44	in	in	ADP	_	46 basin	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 basin	det
46	basin	basin	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 placed	obl
47	on	on	ADP	_	49 covering	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 covering	det
49	covering	covering	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 basin	nmod
50	of	of	ADP	_	52 book	case
51	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	52 book	det
52	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 covering	nmod
53	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 carried	punct
54	as	as	ADV	_	55 soon	advmod
55	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 carried	advmod
56	as	as	SCONJ	_	59 there	mark
57	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 there	nsubj
58	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	59 there	cop
59	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	55 soon	advcl
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 cease	punct
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 blood	det
62	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 cease	nsubj
63	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	64 cease	aux
64	cease	cease	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	59 there	conj
65	to	to	PART	_	66 flow	mark
66	flow	flow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	64 cease	xcomp
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	carry	past	physician	a basin			soon property	tree rules
2	spread	past	physician	the covering of the book				vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent covering=Theme on which=Destination
3	present	gerund		covering	the king			vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to king=Recipient
4	say speech: assert	past	physician not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	take in a quote	infinitive	Sire	this book				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme
6	cut off in a quote	present · passive		my head				vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality
7	let in a quote	infinitive		covering				tree rules
8	place in a quote	infinitive · passive	covering not said here			the basin on the covering of this book		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in basin=Destination
9	is in a quote	present	covering				there property	tree rules
10	cease in a quote	future	the blood					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
11	flow in a quote	to-infinitive	the blood not said here					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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