The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 76

I pardon you on her intercession, and on the conditions that you take the beautiful Persian for your wife, and not your slave, that you never sell her, nor put her away."

Who acts: I, you, mother · What happens: pardon, take, not sell, put away, intercede · To what, where: you, intercession, conditions, mother

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, you, mother), 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 pardon	nsubj
2	pardon	pardon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 pardon	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 intercession	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 intercession	nmod:poss
6	intercession	intercession	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pardon	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 conditions	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 conditions	cc
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 conditions	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 conditions	det
11	conditions	condition	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pardon	obl
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 take	obj
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 take	nsubj
14	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 conditions	acl:relcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Persian	det
16	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Persian	amod
17	Persian	persian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 take	obj
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 wife	case
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 wife	nmod:poss
20	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Persian	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 slave	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 slave	cc
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 slave	advmod
24	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 slave	nmod:poss
25	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pardon	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sell	punct
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 sell	mark
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 sell	nsubj
29	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	30 sell	advmod
30	sell	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 pardon	conj
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 sell	iobj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 put	punct
33	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	34 put	cc
34	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 pardon	parataxis
35	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 put	obj
36	away	away	ADV	_	34 put	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 pardon	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 pardon	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	pardon	present	I	you		mother's intercession	on the conditions	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	take	present	you	the conditions				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument that=Theme persian=Destination
3	not sell	present	you		mother			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
4	put away	past			mother		away property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Goal
5	intercede		mother					nom intercession «communication intransitive»: 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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