The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 6
"My friends, I beg that you will give me your attention while I relate the adventures of my second voyage, which you will find even more astonishing than the first."
Who acts: friends, you, your, my · What happens: beg, give, relate, find, astonish, attend · To what, where: attention, friends, adventures, second voyage · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friends, you, your, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 friends | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 friends | nmod:poss |
| 3 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 beg | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 friends | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 beg | nsubj |
| 6 | beg | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 give | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 give | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 give | aux |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 beg | ccomp |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 give | iobj |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 attention | nmod:poss |
| 13 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | obj |
| 14 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 relate | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 relate | nsubj |
| 16 | relate | relate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 give | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 adventures | det |
| 18 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 relate | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 voyage | case |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 voyage | nmod:poss |
| 21 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 22 voyage | amod |
| 22 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 adventures | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 find | punct |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 find | obj |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 find | nsubj |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 find | aux |
| 27 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 voyage | acl:relcl |
| 28 | even | even | ADV | _ | 29 more | advmod |
| 29 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 30 astonishing | advmod |
| 30 | astonishing | astonish | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 find | obj |
| 31 | than | than | ADP | _ | 33 first | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 first | det |
| 33 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 30 astonishing | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 beg | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 beg | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request in a quote | present | My friends | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | give in a quote | future | you | your attention | My friends = friend | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient attention=Theme | |||
| 3 | relate in a quote | present | My friends = friend | the adventures of my second voyage | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Theme | ||||
| 4 | find in a quote | future | you | my second voyage | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Topic | ||||
| 5 | astonish in a quote | gerund | than the first | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | attend in a quote | your | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | adventure in a quote | my second voyage | nom adventure «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 8 | voyage in a quote | my | nom voyage «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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