The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 75
"Have patience, and do me the favour to hear my story," said I.
Who acts: I. · What happens: have, do, hear, say · To what, where: patience, favour, I., story · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I.), 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 | _ | 2 Have | punct |
| 2 | Have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | ccomp |
| 3 | patience | patience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Have | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 do | cc |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Have | conj |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 do | iobj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 favour | det |
| 9 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 do | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 hear | mark |
| 11 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 favour | acl |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 story | nmod:poss |
| 13 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hear | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Have | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Have | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | I. | I. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | patience | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=Patient | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | infinitive | the favour | I. | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hear in a quote | to-infinitive | my story | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | I. | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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