The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 66

Allah alone can grant your desire, and I should advise you, sire, to send large gifts to those holy men who spend their lives in prayer, and to beg for their intercessions.

Who acts: Allah, I, holy men, your, gifts · What happens: grant, advise, send, spend, beg, desire · To what, where: desire, you, large gifts, holy men, lives, prayer

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Allah, I, holy men, 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	Allah	Allah	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 grant	nsubj
2	alone	alone	ADV	_	1 Allah	advmod
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grant	aux
4	grant	grant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 desire	nmod:poss
6	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grant	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 advise	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 advise	cc
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 advise	nsubj
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 advise	aux
11	advise	advise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 grant	parataxis
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 advise	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sire	punct
14	sire	sire	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 advise	vocative
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 send	punct
16	to	to	PART	_	17 send	mark
17	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 advise	conj
18	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 gifts	amod
19	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 send	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	23 men	case
21	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	23 men	det
22	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 men	amod
23	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 send	obl
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 spend	nsubj
25	spend	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 men	acl:relcl
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 lives	nmod:poss
27	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 spend	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 prayer	case
29	prayer	prayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 spend	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 beg	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 beg	cc
32	to	to	PART	_	33 beg	mark
33	beg	beg	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 grant	parataxis
34	for	for	ADP	_	36 intercessions	case
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 intercessions	nmod:poss
36	intercessions	intercession	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 beg	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 grant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	grant	can	Allah	your desire				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent desire=Theme
2	advise speech: other	should	I		you		sire vocative	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	send	to-infinitive	I not said here	large gifts	that holy men			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gift=Theme to man=Destination
4	spend	present	that holy men	gifts's lives		prayer		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Asset
5	beg speech: request	to-infinitive					for gifts's intercessions	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for intercession=Topic
6	desire		your					nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=agent
7	intercede		gifts = gift					nom intercession «communication 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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