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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 65

"My father," answered Scheherazade, "it is you who have to provide the Sultan daily with a fresh wife, and I implore you, by all the affection you bear me, to allow the honour to fall upon me."

Who acts: father, practice, Scheherazade, honour · What happens: answer, be, have, provide, implore, bear · To what, where: Scheherazade, Sultan, father, honour · 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 (father, practice, Scheherazade, honour), 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

punctnmod:possnsubjpunctpunctobjpunctpunctnsubjcopnsubjnsubjconjmarkxcompdetobjadvmodcasedetamodoblpunctccnsubjparataxisobjpunctcasedet:predetdetoblnsubjconjobjpunctmarkconjdetobjmarkxcompcaseoblpunctpunctroot"PUNCTMyPRONfatherNOUN,PUNCT"PUNCTansweredVERBScheherazadePROPN,PUNCT"PUNCTitPRONisAUXyouPRONwhoPRONhaveVERBtoPARTprovideVERBtheDETSultanPROPNdailyADVwithADPaDETfreshADJwifeNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJIPRONimploreVERByouPRON,PUNCTbyADPallDETtheDETaffectionNOUNyouPRONbearVERBmePRON,PUNCTtoPARTallowVERBtheDEThonourNOUNtoPARTfallVERBuponADPmePRON.PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1""PUNCT_3 fatherpunct
2MymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs3 fathernmod:poss
3fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing6 answerednsubj
4,,PUNCT_3 fatherpunct
5""PUNCT_3 fatherpunct
6answeredanswerVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
7ScheherazadeScheherazadePROPNNumber=Sing6 answeredobj
8,,PUNCT_14 havepunct
9""PUNCT_12 youpunct
10ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 younsubj
11isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin12 youcop
12youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs14 havensubj
13whowhoPRONPronType=Rel14 havensubj
14havehaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin6 answeredconj
15totoPART_16 providemark
16provideprovideVERBVerbForm=Inf14 havexcomp
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 Sultandet
18SultanSultanPROPNNumber=Sing16 provideobj
19dailydailyADV_16 provideadvmod
20withwithADP_23 wifecase
21aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art23 wifedet
22freshfreshADJDegree=Pos23 wifeamod
23wifewifeNOUNNumber=Sing16 provideobl
24,,PUNCT_27 implorepunct
25andandCCONJ_27 implorecc
26IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs27 implorensubj
27imploreimploreVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin6 answeredparataxis
28youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs27 imploreobj
29,,PUNCT_35 bearpunct
30bybyADP_33 affectioncase
31allallDETPronType=Tot33 affectiondet:predet
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art33 affectiondet
33affectionaffectionNOUNNumber=Sing35 bearobl
34youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs35 bearnsubj
35bearbearVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin27 imploreconj
36meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs35 bearobj
37,,PUNCT_39 allowpunct
38totoPART_39 allowmark
39allowallowVERBVerbForm=Inf35 bearconj
40thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art41 honourdet
41honourhonourNOUNNumber=Sing39 allowobj
42totoPART_43 fallmark
43fallfallVERBVerbForm=Inf39 allowxcomp
44uponuponADP_45 mecase
45meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs43 fallobl
46..PUNCT_6 answeredpunct
47""PUNCT_6 answeredpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1answer speech: assertpastMy fatherScheherazadetree rules
2is a in a quotepresentpracticeScheherazadetree rules
3have in a quotepresentScheherazadetree rules
4provide in a quoteto-infinitiveScheherazade not said herethe Sultanwith a fresh wife; daily propertyvn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent sultan=Recipient with wife=Theme
5implore in a quotepresentMy father = fatherScheherazadevn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
6bear in a quotepresentScheherazadeMy father = fatherby all affectionvn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
7allow in a quoteto-infinitiveScheherazade not said herethe honourvn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer honour=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
8fall not said to happen, in a quoteto-infinitivethe honour not said hereupon My father = fathervn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon i=Location

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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