The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 66

We have waited for your awakening; tell us now whence you come and where you were going by that dangerous way?"

Who acts: We, you, your · What happens: wait, tell, come, go, awaken · To what, where: us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, you, your), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 waited	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 waited	aux
3	waited	wait	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 awakening	case
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 awakening	nmod:poss
6	awakening	awakening	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waited	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
8	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 waited	conj
9	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 tell	iobj
10	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 tell	advmod
11	whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	13 come	advmod
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 come	nsubj
13	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 tell	advcl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 going	cc
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 going	advmod
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 going	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 going	aux
18	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 come	conj
19	by	by	ADP	_	22 way	case
20	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 way	det
21	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 way	amod
22	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 going	obl
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 waited	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 waited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	wait	present · perfect	We			for your awakening	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	We not said here	us	now		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient
3	come	present	you			whence property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	go	past · progressive	you			by that dangerous way	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by way=Location
5	awaken		your				nom awakening «act intransitive»: 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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