The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 73

This will cause her to weep still more, and she will hold out the glass crying, "Adorable husband, never shall I cease my prayers till you have done me the favour to drink."

Who acts: This, mother, you, my · What happens: cause, weep, hold out, cry, not cease, do · To what, where: mother, more, glass, prayers, favour · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (This, mother, you, 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 cause	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 cause	aux
3	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cause	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 weep	mark
6	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 cause	xcomp
7	still	still	ADV	_	8 more	advmod
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 weep	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hold	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hold	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hold	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 hold	aux
13	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 cause	parataxis
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 hold	compound:prt
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 glass	det
16	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hold	obj
17	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 hold	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 husband	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 husband	punct
20	Adorable	adorable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 husband	amod
21	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 crying	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 cease	punct
23	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	26 cease	advmod
24	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 cease	aux
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 cease	nsubj
26	cease	cease	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 hold	conj
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 prayers	nmod:poss
28	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 cease	obj
29	till	till	SCONJ	_	32 done	mark
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 done	nsubj
31	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 done	aux
32	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 cease	advcl
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 done	iobj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 favour	det
35	favour	favour	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 done	obj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 drink	mark
37	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 done	advcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cause	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 cause	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	cause	future	This	mother		tree rules
2	weep	to-infinitive	mother not said here	more		vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent more=Theme
3	hold out	future	mother	the glass		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=Theme
4	cry speech: express	gerund	mother not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not cease in a quote	shall	mother	my prayers		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector prayer=Eventuality
6	do in a quote	present · perfect	you	the favour	mother	tree rules
7	drink in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	pray in a quote		my			nom prayer «act intransitive»: 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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