The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 5
He begged the prince to give him the coat he had been wearing and to put on another which they had brought with them.
Who acts: Marzavan, coat · What happens: beg, give, wear, put on, bring · To what, where: prince, Marzavan · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (Marzavan, coat), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 begged | nsubj |
| 2 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 prince | det |
| 4 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 begged | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 give | mark |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 begged | ccomp |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 give | iobj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 coat | det |
| 9 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wearing | nsubj |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 wearing | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 wearing | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 wearing | aux |
| 13 | wearing | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 give | iobj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 put | cc |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 put | mark |
| 16 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 give | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 put | compound:prt |
| 18 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 brought | det |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 brought | aux |
| 22 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 put | conj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 them | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 brought | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | Marzavan | the prince | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | give not said to happen | to-infinitive | Marzavan | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient wear=Theme | |||||
| 3 | wear | past · perfect · progressive | the coat | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | put on | to-infinitive | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | bring | past · perfect · passive | with horses = horse | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=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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