The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 71

I would further beg, as Noureddin publicly affronted me, that the execution might be in front of the palace, and that it might be proclaimed throughout the city, so that no one may be ignorant of it."

Who acts: I, Noureddin, execution, one · What happens: beg, affront, be, proclaim · To what, where: me, front, execution

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 (I, Noureddin, execution, one), 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	4 beg	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 beg	aux
3	further	further	ADV	_	4 beg	advmod
4	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 affronted	punct
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 affronted	mark
7	Noureddin	Noureddin	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 affronted	nsubj
8	publicly	publicly	ADV	_	9 affronted	advmod
9	affronted	affront	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 beg	conj
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 affronted	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 front	punct
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 front	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 execution	det
14	execution	execution	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 front	nsubj
15	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 front	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 front	cop
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 front	case
18	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 beg	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 palace	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 palace	det
21	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 front	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 proclaimed	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 proclaimed	cc
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 proclaimed	mark
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 proclaimed	nsubj:pass
26	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 proclaimed	aux
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 proclaimed	aux:pass
28	proclaimed	proclaim	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 beg	conj
29	throughout	throughout	ADP	_	31 city	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 city	det
31	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 proclaimed	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 ignorant	punct
33	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	39 ignorant	mark
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 so	fixed
35	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	36 one	det
36	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 ignorant	nsubj
37	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 ignorant	aux
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 ignorant	cop
39	ignorant	ignorant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 beg	parataxis
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 it	case
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 ignorant	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 beg	punct
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 beg	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	would	I				further property	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
2	affront	past	Noureddin	me			publicly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer
3	is	might	the execution		front		of the palace	tree rules
4	proclaim	might · passive		execution		throughout the city		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	is	may	no one				of execution; ignorant property	tree rules

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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