The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 103
Make trial on me, I implore you," I cried, holding out the box to the dervish. "
Who acts: you, I, dervish · What happens: make, implore, cry, hold out · To what, where: trial, you, box · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, dervish), 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 | Make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | trial | trial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Make | obj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 me | case |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Make | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 implore | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 implore | nsubj |
| 7 | implore | implore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Make | parataxis |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 implore | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cried | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 cried | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 cried | nsubj |
| 12 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 implore | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 holding | punct |
| 14 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 cried | advcl |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 holding | compound:prt |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 box | det |
| 17 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 holding | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 dervish | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 dervish | det |
| 20 | dervish | dervish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 holding | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Make | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | imperative | you not said here | trial | on me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset trial=Product | |||
| 2 | implore | present | I | you | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | the dervish = dervish | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | hold out in a quote | gerund | the dervish = dervish not said here | the box | to the dervish | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=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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