The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 33
Kill him," shrieked others, "Help! robbers! murderers! help! help!" "
Who acts: you · What happens: kill, shriek · To what, where: imbecile, others
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 42. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Kill | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 shrieked | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 shrieked | punct |
| 5 | shrieked | shriek | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Kill | conj |
| 6 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 shrieked | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Help | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Help | punct |
| 9 | Help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shrieked | obl |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Kill | punct |
| 11 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Kill | obj |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Kill | punct |
| 13 | murderers | murderer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Kill | obj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Kill | punct |
| 15 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Kill | obl |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Kill | punct |
| 17 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Kill | obl |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Kill | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Kill | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | imperative | you not said here | imbecile | help obl; help obl | tree rules | |||
| 2 | shriek in a quote | past | you not said here | others | Help obl | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location other=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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