The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 81

I thanked him, and praised his honesty, begging him to accept several bales of merchandise in token of my gratitude, but he would take nothing.

Who acts: I, captain · What happens: thank, praise, beg, accept, take · To what, where: captain, honesty, several bales, token, nothing

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, captain), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 thanked	nsubj
2	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thanked	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 praised	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 praised	cc
6	praised	praise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thanked	conj
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 honesty	nmod:poss
8	honesty	honesty	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 praised	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 begging	punct
10	begging	beg	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 praised	advcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 begging	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 accept	mark
13	accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 begging	xcomp
14	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 bales	amod
15	bales	bale	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 accept	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 merchandise	case
17	merchandise	merchandise	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bales	nmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 token	case
19	token	token	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 accept	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 gratitude	case
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 gratitude	nmod:poss
22	gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 token	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 take	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 take	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 take	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 take	aux
27	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thanked	parataxis
28	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	27 take	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thanked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	past	I		captain		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	praise	past	I not said here	captain's honesty			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honesty=Theme
3	beg speech: request	gerund	I not said here		captain		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	accept not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	several bales of merchandise		token of my gratitude	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bale=Theme
5	take	would	captain	nothing			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme

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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