The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 11
"Make haste and give me the lamp."
Who acts: you · What happens: make, give · To what, where: haste, lamp, magician
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | _ | 2 Make | punct |
| 2 | Make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Make | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 give | cc |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Make | conj |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 give | iobj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lamp | det |
| 8 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Make | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | imperative | you not said here | haste | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset haste=Product | ||||
| 2 | give in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | the lamp | the magician = magician | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient lamp=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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