The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 81

Before I went I entrusted to my wife's keeping both the mother and child, and begged her to take care of them during my absence, which lasted a whole year.

Who acts: I, absence, my · What happens: go, entrust, keep, beg, take, last · To what, where: mother, Sultana, care

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, absence, my), 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	Before	before	SCONJ	_	3 went	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 entrusted	advcl
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 entrusted	nsubj
5	entrusted	entrust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	SCONJ	_	10 keeping	mark
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 wife	nmod:poss
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 keeping	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 wife	case
10	keeping	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 entrusted	ccomp
11	both	both	CCONJ	_	13 mother	cc:preconj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mother	det
13	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 keeping	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 child	cc
15	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 mother	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 begged	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 begged	cc
18	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 entrusted	conj
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 begged	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 take	mark
21	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 begged	xcomp
22	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 take	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 take	obl
25	during	during	ADP	_	27 absence	case
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 absence	nmod:poss
27	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 take	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 lasted	punct
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 lasted	nsubj
30	lasted	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 absence	acl:relcl
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 year	det
32	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 year	amod
33	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 lasted	obl:unmarked
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 entrusted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	I					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	entrust	past	I					tree rules
3	keep	gerund	I not said here	the mother and child				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Theme
4	beg speech: request	past	I not said here		Sultana			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
5	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	care		during my absence	of children = child	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of they=Initial_Location
6	last	past	my absence			year		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
7	absent		my					nom absence «state transitive»: poss=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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