The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 105

An hour before daybreak Dinarzade awoke, and exclaimed, as she had promised, "My dear sister, if you are not asleep, tell me I pray you, before the sun rises, one of your charming stories.

Who acts: Dinarzade, you, sun · What happens: awake, exclaim, promise, not be, tell, pray · To what, where: dear sister, Dinarzade, you, one · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Dinarzade, you, sun), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hour	det
2	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 awoke	obl:unmarked
3	before	before	ADP	_	4 daybreak	case
4	daybreak	daybreak	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hour	nmod
5	Dinarzade	Dinarzade	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 awoke	nsubj
6	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 exclaimed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 exclaimed	cc
9	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 awoke	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 promised	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 promised	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 promised	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 promised	aux
14	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 exclaimed	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sister	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 sister	punct
17	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 sister	nmod:poss
18	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 sister	amod
19	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 promised	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 tell	punct
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 asleep	mark
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 asleep	nsubj
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 asleep	cop
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 asleep	advmod
25	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 tell	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 asleep	punct
27	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 promised	parataxis
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 tell	iobj
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 pray	nsubj
30	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 tell	ccomp
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 pray	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 rises	punct
33	before	before	SCONJ	_	36 rises	mark
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 sun	det
35	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 rises	nsubj
36	rises	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 tell	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 one	punct
38	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 rises	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	42 stories	case
40	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 stories	nmod:poss
41	charming	charming	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 stories	compound
42	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 one	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 awoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	awake	past	Dinarzade			hour		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	exclaim speech: express	past	Dinarzade not said here					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	promise speech: promise	past · perfect	Dinarzade	My dear sister				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you				asleep property	tree rules
5	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive			Dinarzade			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
6	pray in a quote	present	Dinarzade	you				tree rules
7	rise in a quote	present	the sun	one of your charming stories				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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