The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 35

So saying, with one sweep of his sabre he cut off a hand of the princess, who was just able to lift the other to wave me an eternal farewell.

Who acts: man, princess · What happens: say, cut off, be, lift, wave · To what, where: one sweep, hand, other, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, princess), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 saying	advmod
2	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sweep	punct
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 sweep	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 sweep	nummod
6	sweep	sweep	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saying	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 sabre	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 sabre	nmod:poss
9	sabre	sabre	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sweep	nmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 cut	nsubj
11	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sweep	acl:relcl
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 cut	compound:prt
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 hand	det
14	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cut	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 princess	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 princess	det
17	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hand	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 able	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 able	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 able	cop
21	just	just	ADV	_	22 able	advmod
22	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 princess	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 lift	mark
24	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 able	xcomp
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 other	det
26	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 lift	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 wave	mark
28	wave	wave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 lift	advcl
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 wave	obj
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 farewell	det
31	eternal	eternal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 farewell	amod
32	farewell	farewell	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 wave	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund		one sweep of man's sabre		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sweep=Topic
2	cut off	past	man	a hand of the princess		vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector hand=Eventuality
3	is	past	the princess		able property	tree rules
4	lift	to-infinitive	the princess not said here	the other		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Theme
5	wave	to-infinitive	the princess not said here	me		tree rules

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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