The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 118
"Now, O genius," he cried, "ask pardon of me, and choose by what death you will die!
Who acts: Fisherman, death · What happens: cry, ask, choose, die, pardon · To what, where: pardon, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fisherman, death), 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 | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 cried | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 5 genius | case |
| 5 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 genius | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ask | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 ask | punct |
| 12 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 cried | parataxis |
| 13 | pardon | pardon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ask | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 pardon | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 choose | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 choose | cc |
| 18 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 ask | conj |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 what | case |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 choose | obl |
| 21 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 die | nsubj |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 die | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 die | aux |
| 24 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 what | acl:relcl |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Fisherman | now | of genius | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | infinitive | pardon of me | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pardon=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | choose in a quote | infinitive | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | die in a quote | future | death | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | pardon in a quote | me | nom pardon «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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