The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 27

"It is for your own sake," replied one of the young men, "that we have not granted your request, and to preserve you from our unfortunate fate.

Who acts: ceremony, own sake, your, our · What happens: be, reply, not grant, preserve, request, fate · To what, where: one, that, you · 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 (ceremony, own sake, your, our), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 sake	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sake	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 sake	cop
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 sake	case
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 sake	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sake	amod
7	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 replied	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sake	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 sake	punct
10	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 replied	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 men	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 men	det
14	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 men	amod
15	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 one	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 granted	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 granted	punct
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 granted	nsubj:pass
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 granted	nsubj
20	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 granted	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 granted	advmod
22	granted	grant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 replied	parataxis
23	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 request	nmod:poss
24	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 granted	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 preserve	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 preserve	cc
27	to	to	PART	_	28 preserve	mark
28	preserve	preserve	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 replied	parataxis
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 preserve	obj
30	from	from	ADP	_	33 fate	case
31	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 fate	nmod:poss
32	unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 fate	amod
33	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 preserve	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	ceremony			for your own sake	tree rules
2	reply speech: assert	past	your own sake	one of the young men			tree rules
3	not grant in a quote	present · perfect · passive		that			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal request=Theme
4	preserve in a quote	to-infinitive			you	from our unfortunate fate	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary from fate=Theme
5	request in a quote		your				nom request «communication transitive»: poss=agent
6	fate in a quote		our				nom fate «event 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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