--- title: Let me shoot him with an arrow," said a third; and certainly somebod… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: Let me shoot him with an arrow," said a third; and certainly somebody would have had his way if I had not flung myself at the captain's feet and grasped tight hold of his dress. Who acts: you, me, somebody, I. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10, with i --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/10/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Arabian Nights Entertainments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/) / [Opening, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/10/) / 9 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 9 Let me shoot him with an arrow," said a third; and certainly somebody would have had his way if I had not flung myself at the captain's feet and grasped tight hold of his dress. **Who acts:** you, me, somebody, I · **What happens:** let, shoot, say, have, not fling, grasp · **To what, where:** me, use, third, way, myself, tight hold · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, me, somebody, I), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg128:10:9 # text = Let me shoot him with an arrow," said a third; and certainly somebody would have had his way if I had not flung myself at the captain's feet and grasped tight hold of his dress. 1 Let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 shoot shoot VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 xcomp _ _ 4 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 arrow arrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 10 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 third third NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 15 certainly certainly ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 16 somebody somebody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 19 nsubj _ _ 17 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 19 aux _ _ 19 had have VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 1 parataxis _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 if if SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 23 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 24 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 flung fling VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 19 advcl _ _ 27 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes 26 obl:unmarked _ _ 28 at at ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 captain captain NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 31 's 's PART POS _ 30 case _ _ 32 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl:agent _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 grasped grasp VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 35 tight tight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 hold hold NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 dress dress NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | me | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **shoot** | infinitive | me *not said here* | use | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | | a third | | | | with a arrow | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent third=Theme with arrow=Manner | | 4 | **have** *in a quote* | would · perfect | somebody | use's way | | | | certainly *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient | | 5 | **not** **fling** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past · perfect | I | myself | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **grasp** *in a quote* | past | somebody *not said here* | tight hold of use's dress | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus | | 7 | **hold** *in a quote* | | | use's dress | | | | | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/10/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/10/10/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/10/)