The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 99
So saying, he took the book from the physician's hands, and ordered the executioner to do his duty.
Who acts: head, executioner · What happens: say, take, order, do · To what, where: book, hands, executioner, duty · 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 (head, executioner), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 saying | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 took | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 saying | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 book | det |
| 7 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 hands | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 physician | det |
| 10 | physician | physician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hands | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 physician | case |
| 12 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 took | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ordered | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ordered | cc |
| 15 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 executioner | det |
| 17 | executioner | executioner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ordered | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 do | mark |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 ordered | xcomp |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 duty | nmod:poss |
| 21 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 do | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | head not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | take | past | head | the book | the physician's hands | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent book=Theme from hand=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | order | past | head not said here | the executioner | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent executioner=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | the executioner not said here | head's duty | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Eventuality |
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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