The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 64
Permit me to say that I can accept no other."
Who acts: you, I · What happens: permit, say, accept · To what, where: me, other · 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 (you, I), 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 | Permit | permit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Permit | obj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 say | mark |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Permit | xcomp |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 accept | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 accept | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 accept | aux |
| 8 | accept | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 say | ccomp |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 other | det |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 accept | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Permit | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Permit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | permit | imperative | you not said here | me | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer i=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | accept | can | I | no other | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Theme |
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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