The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 103
Grant me the favour of allowing her to sleep this night in the same room, as it is the last we shall be together."
Who acts: you, favour, it, we · What happens: grant, allow, sleep, be · To what, where: favour, me, Dinarzade, same room
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, favour, it, we), 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 | Grant | grant | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Grant | obj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 favour | det |
| 4 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Grant | obj |
| 5 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 allowing | mark |
| 6 | allowing | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 favour | acl |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 allowing | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 sleep | mark |
| 9 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 allowing | advcl |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 night | det |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sleep | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 room | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 room | det |
| 14 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 room | amod |
| 15 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sleep | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 last | punct |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 last | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 last | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 last | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 last | det |
| 21 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Grant | advcl |
| 22 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 together | nsubj |
| 23 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 together | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 together | cop |
| 25 | together | together | ADV | _ | 21 last | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Grant | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Grant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grant | imperative | you not said here | the favour | me | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal favour=Theme | |||
| 2 | allow | gerund | the favour not said here | Dinarzade | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | sleep | to-infinitive | the favour not said here | the same room | night | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location | |||
| 4 | is | present | it | last property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | shall | we | together 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.
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