The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 101

"Worshipful sir," he began, "this Mussulman whom you desire to hang is unworthy of death; I alone am guilty.

Who acts: hangman, you, something · What happens: begin, desire, hang, be

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hangman, you, something), 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 sir	punct
2	Worshipful	worshipful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sir	amod
3	sir	sir	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 began	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sir	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 began	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 began	nsubj
7	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 whom	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 whom	punct
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 Mussulman	det
11	Mussulman	Mussulman	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 whom	nsubj
12	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 unworthy	nsubj
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 desire	nsubj
14	desire	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 whom	acl:relcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 hang	mark
16	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 desire	xcomp
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 unworthy	cop
18	unworthy	unworthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 began	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 death	case
20	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 unworthy	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 guilty	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 guilty	nsubj
23	alone	alone	ADV	_	22 I	advmod
24	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 guilty	cop
25	guilty	guilty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 began	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	begin	past	hangman		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	desire in a quote	present	you		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	hang not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	present		of death; unworthy property	tree rules
5	is in a quote	present	something	guilty property	tree rules

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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