The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 107

But as he wished to keep the matter secret, let us go alone and seek the place ourselves."

Who acts: story, you, us · What happens: wish, keep, let, go, seek · To what, where: matter secret, us, place

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, you, us), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 let	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 wished	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wished	nsubj
4	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 let	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 keep	mark
6	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wished	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 secret	det
8	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 secret	compound
9	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keep	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wished	punct
11	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 let	obj
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 let	xcomp
14	alone	alone	ADV	_	13 go	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 seek	cc
16	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 go	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 place	det
18	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 seek	obj
19	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 seek	obl:unmarked
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 let	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wish	past	story			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	story not said here	the matter secret		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme
3	let	imperative	you not said here	us		tree rules
4	go	infinitive	us not said here		alone property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	seek	infinitive	us not said here	the place	ourselves obl:unmarked	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=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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