The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 24

Whatever befalls me I cannot forbear asking, `Why you daub your faces with black, and how it is you are all blind of one eye?'"

Who acts: Whatever, I, you, wit · What happens: befall, not forbear, ask, daub, be · To what, where: me, faces

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 (Whatever, I, you, wit), 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	Whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 befalls	nsubj
2	befalls	befall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 befalls	obj
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 forbear	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 forbear	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 forbear	advmod
7	forbear	forbear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 befalls	ccomp
8	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 forbear	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 daub	punct
10	`	`	PUNCT	_	13 daub	punct
11	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	13 daub	advmod
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 daub	nsubj
13	daub	daub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 asking	parataxis
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 faces	nmod:poss
15	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 daub	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 black	case
17	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 daub	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 blind	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 blind	cc
20	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	26 blind	advmod
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 blind	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 blind	cop
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 blind	nsubj
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 blind	cop
25	all	all	ADV	_	26 blind	advmod
26	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 befalls	parataxis
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 eye	case
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 eye	nummod
29	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 blind	obl
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	26 blind	punct
31	'	'	PUNCT	_	26 blind	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 befalls	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	befall	present	Whatever	me		tree rules
2	not forbear	can	I			tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	gerund	I not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	daub	present	you	your faces	with black	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent face=Destination with black=Theme
5	is	present	wit		of one eye; all, blind 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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