The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 26

"Alas!" he replied, "what is the good of saying that when I have but an hour left to live!"

Who acts: Heaven, hour · What happens: reply, be, say, have, leave, live · To what, where: hour · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Heaven, hour), 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	_	6 replied	punct
2	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	6 replied	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Alas	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Alas	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 replied	nsubj
6	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 good	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 good	punct
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 good	obl
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 good	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 good	det
12	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 replied	parataxis
13	of	of	SCONJ	_	14 saying	mark
14	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 good	advcl
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 have	mark
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 have	advmod
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 have	nsubj
18	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 saying	ccomp
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 hour	cc
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 hour	det
21	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	obj
22	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 hour	acl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 live	mark
24	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 left	xcomp
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 replied	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	reply speech: express	past	Heaven				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	present				good property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert in a quote	gerund					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	have in a quote	present	Heaven		hour		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	leave in a quote	participle		a hour not said here			tree rules
6	live in a quote	to-infinitive	a hour not said here				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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