The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 23
Oblige me, I beg you, by relating your history."
Who acts: you, I · What happens: oblige, beg, relate · To what, where: me, you, history
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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 | Oblige | oblige | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Oblige | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 beg | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 beg | nsubj |
| 5 | beg | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Oblige | advcl |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 beg | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 relating | punct |
| 8 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 9 relating | mark |
| 9 | relating | relate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 beg | advcl |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 history | nmod:poss |
| 11 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 relating | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oblige | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oblige | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oblige | imperative | you not said here | me | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | present | I | you | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | relate | gerund | I not said here | your history | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent history=Theme |
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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