The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 15

Then one of the young men begged me to repeat my story, which had struck them all with astonishment, and when I had ended, the old man was bidden to "do his duty," as it was late, and they wished to go to bed.

Who acts: young men, one, I, duty, questions · What happens: beg, repeat, strike, end, bid, do · To what, where: one, me, story, old man, duty, bed · 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 (young men, one, I, duty), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 one	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 begged	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 men	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 men	det
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 men	amod
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 begged	nsubj
7	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 begged	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 repeat	mark
10	repeat	repeat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 begged	xcomp
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 story	nmod:poss
12	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 repeat	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 struck	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 struck	nsubj:pass
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 struck	aux
16	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 story	acl
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 struck	obj
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 them	nmod:unmarked
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 astonishment	case
20	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 struck	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 ended	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 ended	cc
23	when	when	SCONJ	_	26 ended	mark
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 ended	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 ended	aux
26	ended	end	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 begged	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 bidden	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 man	det
29	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 man	amod
30	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bidden	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 bidden	aux:pass
32	bidden	bid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 ended	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	35 do	mark
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 do	punct
35	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 bidden	advcl
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 duty	nmod:poss
37	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 do	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 begged	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 begged	punct
40	as	as	SCONJ	_	43 late	mark
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 late	nsubj
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 late	cop
43	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 begged	advcl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 wished	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 wished	cc
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 wished	nsubj
47	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 begged	conj
48	to	to	PART	_	49 go	mark
49	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 wished	xcomp
50	to	to	ADP	_	51 bed	case
51	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 go	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	the young men	one	me			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	repeat not said to happen	to-infinitive	one not said here	my story				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Eventuality
3	strike	past · perfect · passive		my story			with astonishment	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient they=Result with astonishment=Instrument
4	end	past · perfect	I					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	bid	past · passive		the old man				tree rules
6	do in a quote	to-infinitive		man's duty				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Eventuality
7	is	past	duty				late property	tree rules
8	wish	past	questions = question					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
9	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	questions = question not said here			bed		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_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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