The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 2
For myself I only ask liberty to return to my own country."
Who acts: I · What happens: ask, return · To what, where: liberty
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 (I), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 myself | case |
| 2 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 ask | obl |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 ask | nsubj |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 ask | advmod |
| 5 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | liberty | liberty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ask | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 return | mark |
| 8 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 liberty | acl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 country | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 country | nmod:poss |
| 11 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 country | amod |
| 12 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 return | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ask | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | I | liberty | for myself | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent liberty=Recipient | |||
| 2 | return | to-infinitive | I not said here | liberty not said here | to my own country result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to country=Result |
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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