The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 3

Let me, I beg you, enter your house, and give me water."

Who acts: you, I · What happens: let, beg, enter, give · To what, where: me, you, house, water

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 beg	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 beg	nsubj
5	beg	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Let	parataxis
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 beg	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 enter	punct
8	enter	enter	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 beg	conj
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 house	nmod:poss
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 enter	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 give	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 give	cc
13	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Let	conj
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 give	iobj
15	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 give	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	me		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	beg speech: request	present	I		you	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	enter	infinitive	I not said here	your house		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Destination
4	give	infinitive	you not said here	water	me	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient water=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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