The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 21
Instead, therefore, of returning to your own country, take my daughter and my crown and stay with us.
Who acts: you, my · What happens: return, take, stay, crown · To what, where: daughter
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Instead | instead | ADV | _ | 3 therefore | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Instead | punct |
| 3 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 12 take | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 therefore | punct |
| 5 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 returning | mark |
| 6 | returning | return | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 take | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 country | case |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 country | nmod:poss |
| 9 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 country | amod |
| 10 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 returning | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 returning | punct |
| 12 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 14 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 take | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 crown | cc |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 crown | nmod:poss |
| 17 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 daughter | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 stay | cc |
| 19 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 take | conj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 us | case |
| 21 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 stay | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | gerund | you not said here | to your own country result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to country=Result | ||||
| 2 | take | imperative | you not said here | my daughter and my crown | therefore property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument daughter=Destination | |||
| 3 | stay | infinitive | you not said here | with us | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with we=Location | ||||
| 4 | crown | my | nom crown «communication 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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