The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 107
He drew his sword and destroyed the little life that remained in him, and then threw the body down a well.
Who acts: Sultan, little life · What happens: draw, destroy, remain, throw down · To what, where: sword, little life, body
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan, little life), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 drew | nsubj |
| 2 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 sword | nmod:poss |
| 4 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drew | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 destroyed | cc |
| 6 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 drew | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 life | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 life | amod |
| 9 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 destroyed | obj |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 remained | nsubj |
| 11 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 life | acl:relcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 remained | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 threw | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 threw | cc |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 threw | advmod |
| 17 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 drew | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 body | det |
| 19 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 threw | obj |
| 20 | down | down | ADP | _ | 17 threw | compound:prt |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 threw | flat:foreign |
| 22 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 threw | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | Sultan | Sultan's sword | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | ||||
| 2 | destroy | past | Sultan not said here | the little life | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient | ||||
| 3 | remain | past | the little life | in Sultan | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in he=Location | ||||
| 4 | throw down | past | Sultan not said here | the body | then | well property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=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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