The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 91
Pray tell me how you escaped death."
Who acts: you · What happens: pray, tell, escape · To what, where: me, death · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Pray | conj |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 tell | iobj |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 escaped | advmod |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 escaped | nsubj |
| 6 | escaped | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 tell | ccomp |
| 7 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 escaped | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pray | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pray | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | imperative | you not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | escape | past | you | death | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme death=Initial_Location |
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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