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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 26

"Sire," replied the prince, "pray do not increase my distress in this matter, but rather make me happy by giving her to me in marriage.

Who acts: Sire, my · What happens: reply, not increase, make, give, distress · To what, where: prince, distress, matter, Sire, lady, marriage · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Sire, my), 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

punctnsubjpunctpunctdetobjpunctpunctauxauxadvmodconjnmod:possobjcasedetoblpunctccadvmodparataxisobjxcompmarkadvcliobjcaseoblcaseoblpunctroot"PUNCTSireNOUN,PUNCT"PUNCTrepliedVERBtheDETprinceNOUN,PUNCT"PUNCTprayVERBdoAUXnotPARTincreaseVERBmyPRONdistressNOUNinADPthisDETmatterNOUN,PUNCTbutCCONJratherADVmakeVERBmePRONhappyADJbySCONJgivingVERBherPRONtoADPmePRONinADPmarriageNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1""PUNCT_2 Sirepunct
2SiresireNOUNNumber=Sing5 repliednsubj
3,,PUNCT_2 Sirepunct
4""PUNCT_2 Sirepunct
5repliedreplyVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 princedet
7princeprinceNOUNNumber=Sing5 repliedobj
8,,PUNCT_13 increasepunct
9""PUNCT_13 increasepunct
10prayprayVERBVerbForm=Inf13 increaseaux
11dodoAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin13 increaseaux
12notnotPARTPolarity=Neg13 increaseadvmod
13increaseincreaseVERBVerbForm=Inf5 repliedconj
14mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs15 distressnmod:poss
15distressdistressNOUNNumber=Sing13 increaseobj
16ininADP_18 mattercase
17thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem18 matterdet
18mattermatterNOUNNumber=Sing13 increaseobl
19,,PUNCT_22 makepunct
20butbutCCONJ_22 makecc
21ratherratherADV_22 makeadvmod
22makemakeVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Fin5 repliedparataxis
23meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs22 makeobj
24happyhappyADJDegree=Pos22 makexcomp
25bybySCONJ_26 givingmark
26givinggiveVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part22 makeadvcl
27hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 givingiobj
28totoADP_29 mecase
29meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs26 givingobl
30ininADP_31 marriagecase
31marriagemarriageNOUNNumber=Sing26 givingobl
32..PUNCT_5 repliedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1reply speech: assertpastSirethe princetree rules
2not increase in a quoteinfinitive · do-supportSire not said heremy distressthis mattervn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer distress=Patient
3make in a quoteinfinitiveSirehappy propertyvn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=Product
4give in a quotegerundladymarriageto Sirevn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Theme to i=Recipient
5distress in a quotemynom distress «feeling transitive»: 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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