The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 32
Grant me a little delay; just a short time to go home and bid my wife and children farewell, and to make my will.
Who acts: you · What happens: grant, go, bid, make · To what, where: little delay, me, wife
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 (you), 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 | Grant | grant | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Grant | obj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 delay | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 delay | amod |
| 5 | delay | delay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Grant | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 time | punct |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 10 time | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 9 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 time | amod |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Grant | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 go | mark |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 time | acl |
| 13 | home | home | ADV | _ | 12 go | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 bid | cc |
| 15 | bid | bid | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Grant | conj |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 wife | nmod:poss |
| 17 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bid | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 children | cc |
| 19 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 wife | conj |
| 20 | farewell | farewell | ADV | _ | 15 bid | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 make | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 make | cc |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 make | mark |
| 24 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Grant | parataxis |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 will | nmod:poss |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 make | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Grant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grant | imperative | you not said here | a little delay | me | time | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal delay=Theme | ||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | you not said here | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bid | past | you not said here | my wife and children | farewell property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=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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