The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 57

He wishes me to break my faith with you and marry him, saying that you were beheaded by my father's command.

Who acts: Aladdin, command, father · What happens: wish, break, marry, say, behead, command · To what, where: me, faith, Aladdin, you · Speech: someone speaks here

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, command, father), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wishes	nsubj
2	wishes	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 wishes	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 break	mark
5	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wishes	advcl
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 faith	nmod:poss
7	faith	faith	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 break	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 you	case
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 break	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 marry	cc
11	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 break	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 marry	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 saying	punct
14	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 marry	advcl
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 beheaded	mark
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 beheaded	nsubj:pass
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 beheaded	aux:pass
18	beheaded	behead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 saying	ccomp
19	by	by	ADP	_	23 command	case
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 father	nmod:poss
21	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 command	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 father	case
23	command	command	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 beheaded	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wishes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wish	present	Aladdin	me		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot i=Theme
2	break	to-infinitive	Aladdin not said here	my faith	with you	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent faith=Patient with you=Instrument
3	marry	infinitive	Aladdin not said here	Aladdin		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
4	say speech: assert	gerund	Aladdin not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	behead	past · passive	my father's command	you		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
6	command		my father			nom command «communication 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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