The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 15

These gentlemen, and yourselves, and all your horses were changed into these stones, and I have delivered you by sprinkling you with the water from this pitcher.

Who acts: I · What happens: change, deliver, sprinkle · To what, where: gentlemen, stones, you, pitcher

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 43. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 gentlemen	det
2	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 changed	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 yourselves	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 yourselves	cc
5	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 gentlemen	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 changed	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 changed	cc
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 horses	det:predet
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 horses	nmod:poss
10	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 changed	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 changed	aux:pass
12	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 stones	case
14	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	15 stones	det
15	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 changed	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 delivered	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 delivered	cc
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 delivered	nsubj
19	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 delivered	aux
20	delivered	deliver	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 changed	conj
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 delivered	obj
22	by	by	SCONJ	_	23 sprinkling	mark
23	sprinkling	sprinkle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 delivered	advcl
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 sprinkling	obj
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 water	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 water	det
27	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sprinkling	obl
28	from	from	ADP	_	30 pitcher	case
29	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 pitcher	det
30	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sprinkling	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 changed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	change	past · passive		this gentlemen yourselves			into this stones result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into stone=Result
2	deliver	present · perfect	I	you				vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
3	sprinkle	gerund	I not said here		you	this pitcher	with the water	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Destination with water=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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