The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 16
Allow me to go and to take to the king any message you may choose to send."
Who acts: you · What happens: allow, go, take, choose, send · To what, where: me, message, king
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Allow | allow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Allow | iobj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 go | mark |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Allow | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 take | cc |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 take | mark |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 go | conj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 king | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obl |
| 11 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 message | det |
| 12 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 choose | nsubj |
| 14 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 choose | aux |
| 15 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 message | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 send | mark |
| 17 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 choose | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Allow | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Allow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allow | imperative | you not said here | me | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer i=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take | to-infinitive | you not said here | any message | the king | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent message=Theme to king=Destination | |||
| 4 | choose | may | you | any message not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | send | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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