The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 9
Take back your money, or give me the blow which I crave.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: take back, give, crave · To what, where: money, blow, 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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Take | advmod |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 money | nmod:poss |
| 4 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 give | punct |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 give | cc |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 give | iobj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 blow | det |
| 10 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 give | obj |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 crave | obj |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 crave | nsubj |
| 13 | crave | crave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 blow | acl:relcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take back | imperative | you not said here | your money | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | infinitive | you not said here | the blow | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient blow=Theme | |||
| 3 | crave | present | I | the blow | vn want-32.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot which=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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