The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 58
"I prayed him to forget her," she said, "but in vain; he threatened to do some desperate deed if I refused to go and ask your Majesty for the hand of the princess.
Who acts: woman, Sultan · What happens: pray, forget, say, threaten, do, refuse · To what, where: Sultan, woman, desperate deed, Majesty · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (woman, Sultan), 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 | _ | 3 prayed | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 prayed | nsubj |
| 3 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 prayed | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 forget | mark |
| 6 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 prayed | advcl |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 forget | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 prayed | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 prayed | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 vain | cc |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 vain | case |
| 16 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 prayed | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 threatened | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 threatened | nsubj |
| 19 | threatened | threaten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 prayed | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 do | mark |
| 21 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 threatened | xcomp |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 deed | det |
| 23 | desperate | desperate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 deed | amod |
| 24 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 do | obj |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 27 refused | mark |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 refused | nsubj |
| 27 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 do | advcl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 go | mark |
| 29 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 refused | xcomp |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 ask | cc |
| 31 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 go | conj |
| 32 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 33 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 ask | obj |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 hand | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 hand | det |
| 36 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 ask | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 princess | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 princess | det |
| 39 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 hand | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 prayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray in a quote | past | woman | Sultan | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | forget in a quote | to-infinitive | woman not said here | woman | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | threaten in a quote | past | Sultan | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | do not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Sultan not said here | some desperate deed | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | refuse a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | woman | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | not go in a quote | to-infinitive | woman not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | ask speech: ask in a quote | infinitive | woman not said here | your Majesty | for the hand of the princess | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent majesty=Recipient |
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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