The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 76

"Sir," replied Alnaschar, "I am ready to tell you the whole story, but give, I pray you, your word, that I shall run no risk of punishment."

Who acts: Sir, that, your · What happens: reply, be, tell, give, pray, run · To what, where: whole story, you, risk, punishment · 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 (Sir, that, your), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 replied	punct
2	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 replied	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 replied	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 replied	punct
5	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Alnaschar	Alnaschar	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 replied	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ready	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 ready	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 ready	nsubj
10	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 ready	cop
11	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 replied	advcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 tell	mark
13	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 ready	xcomp
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 tell	iobj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 story	det
16	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 story	amod
17	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tell	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 give	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 give	cc
20	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 tell	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 pray	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 pray	nsubj
23	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 replied	parataxis
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 pray	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 word	punct
26	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 word	nmod:poss
27	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pray	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 run	punct
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 run	nsubj
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 run	nsubj
31	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 run	aux
32	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 word	parataxis
33	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	34 risk	det
34	risk	risk	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 run	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 punishment	case
36	punishment	punishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 risk	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 replied	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	Sir				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	present	Sir			ready property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive	Sir not said here	the whole story	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient story=Topic
4	give in a quote	infinitive	Sir not said here				vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	pray in a quote	present	Sir	you			tree rules
6	run in a quote	shall	that	no risk of punishment			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme risk=Trajectory
7	word in a quote		your				nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent
8	risk in a quote			punishment			nom risk «state transitive»: of=patient

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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