The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 6

Take it, and, as you go down the mountain, scatter a little of the water it contains over every black stone and you will soon find your two brothers."

Who acts: you, pitcher · What happens: take, go down, scatter, contain, find · To what, where: pitcher, mountain, black stone, two brothers

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 (you, pitcher), 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	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Take	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 scatter	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 scatter	cc
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 go	punct
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 go	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 go	nsubj
8	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 scatter	advcl
9	down	down	ADP	_	11 mountain	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mountain	det
11	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 go	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 scatter	punct
13	scatter	scatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Take	parataxis
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 little	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 contains	advmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 water	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 water	det
18	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 contains	obl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 contains	nsubj
20	contains	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 scatter	advcl
21	over	over	ADP	_	24 stone	case
22	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	24 stone	det
23	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 stone	amod
24	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 contains	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 find	cc
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 find	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 find	aux
28	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 find	advmod
29	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 scatter	conj
30	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 brothers	nmod:poss
31	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 brothers	nummod
32	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 find	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Take	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	pitcher			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	go down	present	you	the mountain			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient mountain=Extent
3	scatter	present					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme
4	contain	present	pitcher		every black stone	of the water	vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
5	find	future	you	your two brothers		soon property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Topic

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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