The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 24

The next morning, before the day broke, Dinarzade said to her sister, "Dear sister, if you are awake I pray you to go on with your story."

Who acts: day, Dinarzade, sister · What happens: break, say, be, pray, go on · To what, where: sister · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (day, Dinarzade, sister), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morning	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 morning	amod
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 broke	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 broke	punct
5	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 broke	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 broke	nsubj
8	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
10	Dinarzade	Dinarzade	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 broke	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 sister	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 sister	nmod:poss
14	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sister	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 sister	punct
17	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 sister	amod
18	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sister	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 awake	punct
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 awake	mark
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 awake	nsubj
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 awake	cop
23	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 said	ccomp
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 pray	nsubj
25	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 awake	parataxis
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 pray	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 go	mark
28	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 pray	advcl
29	on	on	ADP	_	28 go	compound:prt
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 story	case
31	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 story	nmod:poss
32	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 go	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 broke	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 broke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	the day			morning		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	Dinarzade		Dinarzade's sister and Dear sister			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to sister=Recipient
3	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	Dinarzade's sister and Dear sister = sister				awake property	tree rules
4	pray in a quote	present	Dinarzade	Dinarzade's sister and Dear sister = sister				tree rules
5	go on in a quote	to-infinitive	Dinarzade not said here				with your story	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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