The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 2
"Charitable person," he said, "whoever you may be grant me yet another prayer.
Who acts: Charitable person, whoever · What happens: say, be · 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 (Charitable person, whoever), 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 person | punct |
| 2 | Charitable | charitable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 person | amod |
| 3 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 person | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 person | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 grant | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 grant | punct |
| 10 | whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 grant | nsubj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 grant | nsubj |
| 12 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 grant | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 grant | cop |
| 14 | grant | grant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 grant | obj |
| 16 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 18 prayer | advmod |
| 17 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 prayer | det |
| 18 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 grant | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Charitable person | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | may | whoever | another prayer obl; grant property | tree rules |
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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