The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 68
"I have a favour to ask of your Majesty, and I beg you to believe that it is in no way prompted by my husband.
Who acts: kissing, favour · What happens: have, ask, beg, believe, be, prompt · To what, where: favour, you, way · 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 (kissing, favour), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 favour | det |
| 5 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 ask | mark |
| 7 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 favour | acl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Majesty | case |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 10 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ask | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 beg | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 beg | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 beg | nsubj |
| 14 | beg | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | conj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 beg | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 believe | mark |
| 17 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 beg | advcl |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 way | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 way | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 way | cop |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 way | case |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 way | det |
| 23 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 believe | ccomp |
| 24 | prompted | prompt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 way | acl |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 husband | case |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 husband | nmod:poss |
| 27 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 prompted | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | kissing | a favour | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favour=Patient | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | to-infinitive | kissing not said here | a favour not said here | of your Majesty | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of majesty=Recipient | |||
| 3 | beg speech: request in a quote | present | kissing | you | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | believe in a quote | to-infinitive | kissing not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | favour | no way | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | prompt in a quote | participle | no way not said here | by my husband | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition |
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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