The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 58

She begged hard for life, which he was generous enough to give her, but he bade her to tell him how she had got into partnership with the abominable creatures he had just put to death.

Who acts: lady, life, crone · What happens: beg, be, give, bade, tell, get · To what, where: lady, crone, partnership, abominable creatures · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (lady, life, crone), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 begged	nsubj
2	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 begged	xcomp
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 life	case
5	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 begged	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 generous	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 generous	nsubj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 generous	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 generous	cop
10	generous	generous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 life	parataxis
11	enough	enough	ADV	_	10 generous	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 give	mark
13	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 generous	parataxis
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 give	iobj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bade	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 bade	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 bade	nsubj
18	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 begged	conj
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 bade	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 tell	mark
21	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 bade	xcomp
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 tell	iobj
23	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	26 got	advmod
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 got	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 got	aux
26	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 tell	advcl
27	into	into	ADP	_	28 partnership	case
28	partnership	partnership	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 got	obl
29	with	with	ADP	_	32 creatures	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 creatures	det
31	abominable	abominable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 creatures	amod
32	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 got	obl
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 put	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 put	aux
35	just	just	ADV	_	36 put	advmod
36	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 creatures	acl:relcl
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 death	case
38	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 put	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	lady				for life; hard property	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for life=Topic
2	is	past	life				enough, generous property	tree rules
3	give	to-infinitive			lady			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
4	bade	past	crone	lady				tree rules
5	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	crone not said here		crone			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
6	get	past · perfect	lady			partnership	with the abominable creatures	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into partnership=Destination
7	put	past · perfect	crone	the abominable creatures not said here			to death	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent creature=Goal

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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