The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 14
"But I killed your son quite unintentionally, so I implore you to spare my life."
Who acts: genius · What happens: kill, implore, spare · To what, where: son, 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 (genius), 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 | _ | 2 But | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 killed | cc |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 killed | nsubj |
| 4 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 son | nmod:poss |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 killed | obj |
| 7 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 8 unintentionally | advmod |
| 8 | unintentionally | unintentionally | ADV | _ | 4 killed | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 implore | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 implore | advmod |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 implore | nsubj |
| 12 | implore | implore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 killed | parataxis |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 implore | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 spare | mark |
| 15 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 implore | advcl |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 life | nmod:poss |
| 17 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 spare | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 killed | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill in a quote | past | the genius = genius | your son | unintentionally property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme | |||
| 2 | implore in a quote | present | the genius = genius | you | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | spare in a quote | to-infinitive | the genius = genius not said here | my 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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