The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 128
To the second I also agree, I only beg you to spare her life."
Who acts: I · What happens: agree, beg, spare · To what, where: you, life
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 second | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 second | det |
| 3 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 agree | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 agree | nsubj |
| 5 | also | also | ADV | _ | 6 agree | advmod |
| 6 | agree | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 beg | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 beg | nsubj |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 beg | advmod |
| 10 | beg | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 agree | conj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 beg | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 spare | mark |
| 13 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 beg | advcl |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 life | nmod:poss |
| 15 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 spare | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 agree | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 agree | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | present | I | to the second | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | present | I | you | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | spare | to-infinitive | I not said here | daughter's life | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent life=Asset |
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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