The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 62
"I beg you to get us something to eat that we may make merry together."
Who acts: giving, we · What happens: beg, get, eat, make · To what, where: you, something, us
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giving, we), 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 beg | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 beg | nsubj |
| 3 | beg | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 beg | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 get | mark |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 beg | advcl |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 get | iobj |
| 8 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 get | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 eat | mark |
| 10 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 something | acl |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 make | mark |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 make | nsubj |
| 13 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 make | aux |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 eat | advcl |
| 15 | merry | merry | ADV | _ | 14 make | advmod |
| 16 | together | together | ADV | _ | 14 make | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 beg | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 beg | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request in a quote | present | giving | you | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | get in a quote | to-infinitive | giving not said here | something | us | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary something=Theme | |||
| 3 | eat in a quote | to-infinitive | giving not said here | something not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | make in a quote | may | we | merry, together property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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