The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 21
For mercy's sake give up this mad idea and retire whilst you can."
What happens: give up, retire · To what, where: mad idea
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 sake | case |
| 2 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sake | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 mercy | case |
| 4 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | obl |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 give | compound:prt |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 idea | det |
| 8 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 idea | amod |
| 9 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 retire | cc |
| 11 | retire | retire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 give | conj |
| 12 | whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 14 can | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 can | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 retire | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give up | present | this mad idea | for mercy's sake | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Source | ||||
| 2 | retire | infinitive | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: 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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