The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 11
When I had finished, the young men begged that I would go with them to the castle, and I joyfully accepted their offer.
Who acts: I, young men, miles · What happens: finish, beg, go, accept, offer · To what, where: castle, offer · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, young men, miles), 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 | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 finished | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 finished | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 finished | aux |
| 4 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 begged | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 finished | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 men | det |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 men | amod |
| 8 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 begged | nsubj |
| 9 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 go | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 go | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 go | aux |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 begged | ccomp |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 go | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 castle | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 castle | det |
| 18 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 go | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 accepted | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 accepted | cc |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 accepted | nsubj |
| 22 | joyfully | joyfully | ADV | _ | 23 accepted | advmod |
| 23 | accepted | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 begged | conj |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 offer | nmod:poss |
| 25 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 accepted | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · perfect | I | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | the young men | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go | would | I | the castle | with miles = mile | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | accept | past | I | miles's offer | joyfully property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offer=Theme | |||
| 5 | offer | miles = mile | nom offer «communication transitive»: poss=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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