The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 50

After I had eaten and drunk of the most delicate food and rarest wines, the ladies crowded round me and begged me to tell them all my adventures.

Who acts: I, my · What happens: eat, drink, beg, tell, adventure · To what, where: me, adventures, ladies · 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, my), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	4 eaten	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 eaten	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 eaten	aux
4	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 crowded	advcl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 drunk	cc
6	drunk	drink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 eaten	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 food	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 food	det
9	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	10 delicate	advmod
10	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 food	amod
11	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drunk	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 wines	cc
13	rarest	rare	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 wines	amod
14	wines	wine	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 food	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 eaten	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ladies	det
17	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 crowded	nsubj
18	crowded	crowded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
19	round	round	ADP	_	20 me	case
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 crowded	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 begged	cc
22	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 crowded	conj
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 begged	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 tell	mark
25	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 begged	xcomp
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 tell	iobj
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 adventures	det:predet
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 adventures	nmod:poss
29	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 tell	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 crowded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	eat	past · perfect	I				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	drink	participle	I not said here			of the delicate food and rarest wines	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of food=Source
3	beg speech: request	past			me		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
4	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive		my adventures	ladies = lady		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient adventure=Topic
5	adventure		my				nom adventure «act 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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