The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 26

During that day we spoke of other things, but when night came, and the same ceremony was repeated, I implored them most earnestly to let me know the meaning of it all.

Who acts: we, night, I, me · What happens: speak, come, repeat, implore, let, know · To what, where: same ceremony, faces, me, meaning · 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 (we, night, I, me), 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	During	during	ADP	_	3 day	case
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spoke	obl
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 spoke	nsubj
5	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 things	case
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 things	amod
8	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 spoke	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 implored	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 implored	cc
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 came	advmod
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 implored	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 repeated	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 repeated	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 ceremony	det
17	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 ceremony	amod
18	ceremony	ceremony	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 repeated	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 repeated	aux:pass
20	repeated	repeat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 came	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 implored	nsubj
23	implored	implore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 spoke	conj
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 implored	obj
25	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	26 earnestly	advmod
26	earnestly	earnestly	ADV	_	23 implored	advmod
27	to	to	PART	_	28 let	mark
28	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 implored	advcl
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 let	obj
30	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 let	xcomp
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 meaning	det
32	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 know	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 it	case
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 meaning	appos
35	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 it	det
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	we		day	of other things	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come	past	night				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	repeat	past · passive		the same ceremony			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
4	implore	past	I	faces = face		earnestly property	vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
5	let	to-infinitive	I not said here	me			tree rules
6	know	infinitive	me not said here	the meaning			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer meaning=Stimulus

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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