The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 136

I am now going in search of him, and not wishing to confide my wife to the care of other people, I am taking her with me.

Who acts: I, other people · What happens: go, not wish, confide, take, search, care · To what, where: search, wife, care, girl, widower

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, other people), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 going	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 going	aux
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 going	advmod
4	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 search	case
6	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 going	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 search	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wishing	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 wishing	cc
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 wishing	advmod
12	wishing	wish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 going	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 confide	mark
14	confide	confide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 wishing	xcomp
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 wife	nmod:poss
16	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 confide	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 care	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 care	det
19	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 confide	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 people	case
21	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 people	amod
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 care	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 taking	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 taking	nsubj
25	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 taking	aux
26	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 going	conj
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 taking	obj
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 me	case
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 taking	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present · progressive	I			search of widower	now		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in search=Location
2	not wish	gerund	I not said here						vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	confide speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	my wife	the care of other people				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent wife=Topic to care=Recipient
4	take	present · progressive	I		girl			with me	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination
5	search			widower					nom search «act transitive»: of=patient
6	care		other people						nom care «act intransitive»: of=agent

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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