The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 44, sentence 62

They were confronted with each other and proved guilty, and were executed in less than an hour.

What happens: confront, prove, execute · To what, where: sisters

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: 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 confronted	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 confronted	aux:pass
3	confronted	confront	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 each	case
5	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	3 confronted	obl
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 each	fixed
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 proved	cc
8	proved	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 confronted	conj
9	guilty	guilty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 proved	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 executed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 executed	cc
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 executed	aux:pass
13	executed	execute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 proved	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	18 hour	case
15	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	18 hour	advmod
16	than	than	ADP	_	15 less	fixed
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 hour	det
18	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 executed	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 confronted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	confront	past · passive	sisters = sister		with each	vn confront-98 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Theme with each=Instrument
2	prove	past			guilty property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	execute	past · passive		hour		vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»

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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