The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 71
Again she will beseech me to listen to her entreaties, throwing herself this time at my feet, but all to no purpose.
Who acts: mother · What happens: beseech, listen, throw · To what, where: me, mother
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 (mother), 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 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 4 beseech | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 beseech | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 beseech | aux |
| 4 | beseech | beseech | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 beseech | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 listen | mark |
| 7 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 beseech | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 entreaties | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 entreaties | nmod:poss |
| 10 | entreaties | entreaty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 listen | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 throwing | punct |
| 12 | throwing | throw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 listen | advcl |
| 13 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 throwing | obj |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 time | det |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 throwing | obl |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 feet | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 feet | nmod:poss |
| 18 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 time | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 all | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 all | cc |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 beseech | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 purpose | case |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 purpose | det |
| 24 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 all | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 beseech | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beseech | future | mother | me | again | tree rules | |||
| 2 | listen | to-infinitive | mother not said here | to mother's entreaties | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to entreaty=Theme | ||||
| 3 | throw | gerund | mother not said here | mother | time | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=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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