The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 3
Strike me, I beg of you, one blow.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: strike, beg · To what, where: me
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), 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 | Strike | strike | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Strike | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 beg | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 beg | nsubj |
| 5 | beg | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Strike | parataxis |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 beg | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 blow | punct |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 blow | nummod |
| 10 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 beg | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Strike | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | imperative | you not said here | me | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent i=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | present | I | of you | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=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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