The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 99
Every day she comes and beats me with a whip of buffalo hide.
Who acts: enchantress, buffalo · What happens: come, beat, hide · To what, where: me
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 (enchantress, buffalo), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 comes | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 comes | nsubj |
| 4 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 beats | cc |
| 6 | beats | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 comes | conj |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 beats | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 whip | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 whip | det |
| 10 | whip | whip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 beats | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 buffalo | case |
| 12 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 whip | nmod |
| 13 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 buffalo | acl:relcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | enchantress | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | beat | present | enchantress not said here | me | with a whip of buffalo | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent i=Patient with whip=Instrument | |||
| 3 | hide | present | buffalo not said here | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=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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