The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 78

My father may be here at any moment," said he, "so make me, I pray you, a bath of hot water, that I may bathe, and change my clothes, and be ready to receive him."

Who acts: father, I · What happens: be, say, make, pray, bathe, change · To what, where: me, you, clothes, father · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, I), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 father	nmod:poss
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 here	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 here	cop
5	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 father	acl
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 moment	case
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 moment	det
8	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 here	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 father	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 father	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 make	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 he	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 make	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 make	advmod
16	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 make	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 pray	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 pray	nsubj
20	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 make	parataxis
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 pray	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bath	punct
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 bath	det
24	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pray	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 water	case
26	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 water	amod
27	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bath	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 bathe	punct
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 bathe	mark
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 bathe	nsubj
31	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 bathe	aux
32	bathe	bathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 pray	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 change	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 change	cc
35	change	change	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	32 bathe	conj
36	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 clothes	nmod:poss
37	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	35 change	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 ready	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 ready	cc
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 ready	cop
41	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 make	conj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 receive	mark
43	receive	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 ready	xcomp
44	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 receive	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 make	punct
46	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	may	My father not said here		moment	here property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	My father				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	make	infinitive	father	me			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Product
4	pray	present	I	you		a bath of hot water obl	tree rules
5	bathe	may	I				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	change	infinitive	I not said here	my clothes			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient
7	is	infinitive	father not said here			ready property	tree rules
8	receive	to-infinitive	father not said here	father			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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.

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