The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 96
When his Highness receives me, I shall beg him, as a last favour, to let you sleep in our chamber, so that I may have your company during the last night I am alive.
Who acts: Highness, I, you · What happens: receive, beg, let, sleep, have, be · To what, where: me, father, you, chamber, company, last night
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 (Highness, I, you), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 receives | mark |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 Highness | nmod:poss |
| 3 | Highness | highness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 receives | nsubj |
| 4 | receives | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 beg | advcl |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 receives | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 receives | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 beg | nsubj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 beg | aux |
| 9 | beg | beg | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 beg | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 favour | punct |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 favour | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 favour | det |
| 14 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 favour | amod |
| 15 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 beg | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 let | punct |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 let | mark |
| 18 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 beg | parataxis |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 let | obj |
| 20 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 let | xcomp |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 chamber | case |
| 22 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 chamber | nmod:poss |
| 23 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sleep | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 have | punct |
| 25 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 29 have | mark |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 so | fixed |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 have | nsubj |
| 28 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 have | aux |
| 29 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 let | conj |
| 30 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 company | nmod:poss |
| 31 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 have | obj |
| 32 | during | during | ADP | _ | 35 night | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 night | det |
| 34 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 night | amod |
| 35 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 have | obl |
| 36 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 alive | nsubj |
| 37 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 alive | cop |
| 38 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 night | acl:relcl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 beg | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | present | father's Highness | me | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | shall | I | father | as a last favour | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 3 | let | to-infinitive | you | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | sleep | infinitive | you not said here | our chamber | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in chamber=Location | ||||
| 5 | have | may | I | your company | night | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=Patient | |||
| 6 | is | present | I | the last night not said here | alive 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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