The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 44, sentence 51
Have them examined, and they will confess their crime.
Who acts: you, women · What happens: have, examine, confess, incriminate · To what, where: women, crime
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 44. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, women), 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 | Have | have | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Have | obj |
| 3 | examined | examine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Have | xcomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 confess | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 confess | cc |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 confess | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 confess | aux |
| 8 | confess | confess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Have | parataxis |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 crime | nmod:poss |
| 10 | crime | crime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 confess | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | imperative | you not said here | women = woman | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | examine | participle | women = woman not said here | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | confess | future | women = woman | women's crime | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crime=Topic | ||||
| 4 | incriminate | women = woman | nom crime «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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