The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 48

Throwing himself on the ground at the Caliph's feet, he said: "Commander of the Faithful, your miserable slave has offended you, and craves forgiveness."

Who acts: hand, Commander · What happens: throw, say, offend, crave · To what, where: hand, ground, Commander, miserable slave, forgiveness · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (hand, Commander), 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	Throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 said	advcl
2	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	1 Throwing	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 ground	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ground	det
5	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Throwing	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	10 feet	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Caliph	det
8	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 feet	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Caliph	case
10	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Throwing	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Throwing	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 Commander	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 Commander	punct
16	Commander	Commander	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 said	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 Faithful	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Faithful	det
19	Faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Commander	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 offended	punct
21	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 slave	nmod:poss
22	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 slave	amod
23	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 offended	nsubj:pass
24	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 offended	aux
25	offended	offend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 Commander	acl:relcl
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 offended	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 craves	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 craves	cc
29	craves	crave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 said	parataxis
30	forgiveness	forgiveness	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 craves	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 craves	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 craves	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	throw	gerund	hand not said here	hand	the ground	at the Caliph's feet	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on ground=Destination
2	say speech: assert	past	hand	Commander of the Faithful			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	offend in a quote	present · perfect · passive	Commander of the Faithful not said here	your miserable slave			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer you=Result
4	crave in a quote	present		forgiveness			vn want-32.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot forgiveness=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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