--- title: The sap flows from an incision made high up in the tree into a vesse… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: The sap flows from an incision made high up in the tree into a vessel hung there to receive it, and soon hardens into the substance called camphor, but the tree itself withers up and dies when it has been so treated. Who acts: sap, vessel, substance, tree. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertain --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/14/55/) [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 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/14/) / 55 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 55 The sap flows from an incision made high up in the tree into a vessel hung there to receive it, and soon hardens into the substance called camphor, but the tree itself withers up and dies when it has been so treated. **Who acts:** sap, vessel, substance, tree · **What happens:** flow, make, hang, receive, harden, call · **To what, where:** incision, tree, vessel, substance, camphor · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sap, vessel, substance, tree), 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:pg128:14:55 # text = The sap flows from an incision made high up in the tree into a vessel hung there to receive it, and soon hardens into the substance called camphor, but the tree itself withers up and dies when it has been so treated. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 sap SAP NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 flows flow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 incision incision NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 8 high high ADV RB Degree=Pos 9 advmod _ _ 9 up up ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 13 into into SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 vessel vessel NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 hung hang VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 17 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 16 advmod _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 receive receive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 24 advmod _ _ 24 hardens harden VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 25 into into ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 substance substance NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 acl _ _ 29 camphor camphor NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 but but CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 34 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes 33 nmod:unmarked _ _ 35 withers wither VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 36 up up ADP RP _ 35 compound:prt _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 dies die VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 conj _ _ 39 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 44 advmod _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 41 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 42 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 44 cop _ _ 43 so so ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 44 treated treated ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **flow** | present | the sap | | | a incision | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **make** | participle | | a incision *not said here* | | the tree | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **hang** | past | a vessel | | | there | | | tree rules | | 4 | **receive** | to-infinitive | a vessel *not said here* | vessel | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 5 | **harden** | present | the sap *not said here* | | | the substance | | soon *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **call** | participle | the substance *not said here* | camphor | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **wither up** | present | the tree vessel | | | | | | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 8 | **die** | present | the tree vessel *not said here* | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 9 | **is** | present · perfect | sap | | | | | treated *property* | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/14/54/) - next →: [sentence 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/14/56/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/14/)