The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 110
Therefore send away this man, I pray you, and let me take his place, as it is I who am guilty."
Who acts: you, I, me, place · What happens: send away, pray, let, take, be · To what, where: man, you, me, place, I
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 (you, I, me, place), 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 2 send | advmod |
| 2 | send | send | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 send | advmod |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 send | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 pray | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 pray | nsubj |
| 8 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 send | parataxis |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 pray | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 let | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 let | cc |
| 12 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 pray | conj |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 let | obj |
| 14 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 let | xcomp |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 place | nmod:poss |
| 16 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 take | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 guilty | punct |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 I | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 I | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 I | cop |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 guilty | nsubj |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 guilty | nsubj |
| 23 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 guilty | cop |
| 24 | guilty | guilty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 send | parataxis |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 send | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send away | imperative | you not said here | this man | away, therefore property | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | |||
| 2 | pray | present | I | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | I not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take | infinitive | me not said here | purveyor's place | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | place | I | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is | present | I | 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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