The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 35
Aladdin begged for forty days in which to find her, promising if he failed to return and suffer death at the Sultan's pleasure.
Who acts: Aladdin, Sultan · What happens: beg, find, promise, fail, not return, suffer · To what, where: daughter, death, pleasure
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Aladdin, 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 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 begged | nsubj |
| 2 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 days | case |
| 4 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 days | nummod |
| 5 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 begged | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 which | case |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 begged | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 find | mark |
| 9 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 begged | advcl |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 find | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 promising | punct |
| 12 | promising | promise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 begged | advcl |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 failed | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 failed | nsubj |
| 15 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 promising | ccomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 return | mark |
| 17 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 failed | xcomp |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 suffer | cc |
| 19 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 return | conj |
| 20 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 suffer | obj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 pleasure | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Sultan | det |
| 23 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 pleasure | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 Sultan | case |
| 25 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 suffer | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | Aladdin | day | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent which=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | Aladdin not said here | daughter | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | ||||
| 3 | promise speech: promise | gerund | Aladdin not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | fail a condition, not said to happen | past | Aladdin | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | not return | to-infinitive | Aladdin not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | suffer | infinitive | Aladdin not said here | death | the Sultan's pleasure | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer death=Stimulus | |||
| 7 | please | the Sultan | nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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