The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 61
Beg her, we pray you, to be seated."
Who acts: you, we · What happens: beg, pray, seat · To what, where: wife, you
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we), 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 | Beg | beg | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Beg | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 pray | punct |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 pray | nsubj |
| 5 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Beg | advcl |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 pray | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 seated | punct |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 seated | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 seated | aux:pass |
| 10 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Beg | advcl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Beg | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Beg | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | imperative | you not said here | wife | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | pray | present | we | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | seat | to-infinitive · passive | you not said here | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP» |
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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