--- title: But they held tight, and having brought him to his victim's grave, t… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: But they held tight, and having brought him to his victim's grave, they proceeded to kill him, after which they tore open his body, scattered the inside and once more flew away. Who acts: birds. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26, with its dependency t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/26/48/) [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 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/26/) / 48 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 48 But they held tight, and having brought him to his victim's grave, they proceeded to kill him, after which they tore open his body, scattered the inside and once more flew away. **Who acts:** birds · **What happens:** hold, have, bring, proceed, kill, tore · **To what, where:** two, grave, open body, inside This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birds), 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:pg128:26:48 # text = But they held tight, and having brought him to his victim's grave, they proceeded to kill him, after which they tore open his body, scattered the inside and once more flew away. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 tight tight ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 having have VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 reparandum _ _ 8 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 victim victim NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 13 's 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 grave grave NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 proceeded proceed VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 20 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 after after ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 obl _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 tore tore VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 parataxis _ _ 26 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 scattered scatter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 inside inside NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 36 advmod _ _ 35 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 36 advmod _ _ 36 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 37 away away ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** | past | birds *= bird* | | | | | tight *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **have** | gerund | | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **bring** | past | birds *= bird* *not said here* | two | | two's victim's grave | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to grave=Destination | | 4 | **proceed** | past | birds *= bird* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **kill** | to-infinitive | birds *= bird* *not said here* | two | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 6 | **tore** | past | birds *= bird* | two's open body | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **scatter** | past | birds *= bird* *not said here* | the inside | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent inside=Theme | | 8 | **fly away** | past | birds *= bird* *not said here* | | | | | away, once *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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. - ← previous: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/26/47/) - next →: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/26/49/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/26/)