The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 15

I have a son, who, though not wanting in sense, is young, foolish, and headstrong, and I charge you to keep him at a distance."

Who acts: I, son · What happens: have, not want, be, charge, keep · To what, where: son, sense, you, merchant

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, son), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 son	det
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wanting	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 wanting	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wanting	punct
8	though	though	SCONJ	_	10 wanting	mark
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 wanting	advmod
10	wanting	want	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 son	acl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 sense	case
12	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wanting	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 young	punct
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 young	cop
15	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sense	amod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 foolish	punct
17	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 young	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 headstrong	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 headstrong	cc
20	headstrong	headstrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 young	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 charge	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 charge	cc
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 charge	nsubj
24	charge	charge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 have	conj
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 charge	iobj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 keep	mark
27	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 charge	advcl
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 keep	obj
29	at	at	ADP	_	31 distance	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 distance	det
31	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 keep	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	I	a son				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
2	not want	gerund	a son			sense		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	is	present					young property	tree rules
4	be							tree rules
5	be							tree rules
6	charge	present	I		you			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location you=Theme
7	keep	to-infinitive	I not said here	merchant			at a distance	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme at distance=Location

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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