The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 96

He shut me up in a large case and ordered his executioner to carry me into a desert place, to cut off my head, and then to abandon my body to the birds of prey.

Who acts: persecutor, executioner · What happens: shut up, order, carry, cut off, abandon · To what, where: me, large case, executioner, desert place, head, body

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 (persecutor, executioner), 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 shut	nsubj
2	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 shut	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 shut	compound:prt
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 case	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 case	det
7	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 case	amod
8	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shut	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 ordered	cc
10	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 shut	conj
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 executioner	nmod:poss
12	executioner	executioner	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ordered	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 carry	mark
14	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 ordered	xcomp
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 carry	obj
16	into	into	ADP	_	19 place	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 place	det
18	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 place	compound
19	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 carry	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 cut	punct
21	to	to	PART	_	22 cut	mark
22	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 carry	conj
23	off	off	ADP	_	22 cut	compound:prt
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 head	nmod:poss
25	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cut	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 abandon	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 abandon	cc
28	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 abandon	advmod
29	to	to	PART	_	30 abandon	mark
30	abandon	abandon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 shut	conj
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 body	nmod:poss
32	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 abandon	obj
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 birds	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 birds	det
35	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 abandon	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 prey	case
37	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 birds	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 shut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	shut up	past	persecutor	me		a large case		vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
2	order	past	persecutor not said here	persecutor's executioner				vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent executioner=Recipient clause=Topic
3	carry not said to happen	to-infinitive	persecutor's executioner not said here	me		a desert place		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
4	cut off	to-infinitive	persecutor's executioner not said here	my head				vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality
5	abandon	to-infinitive	persecutor not said here	my body	the birds of prey		then	vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme body=Source to bird=Destination

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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