The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 94
Oh, if he had only refused my request!
Who acts: man, my · What happens: refuse, request · To what, where: request
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 (man, my), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 refused | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 refused | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 refused | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 refused | aux |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 refused | advmod |
| 7 | refused | refuse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 request | nmod:poss |
| 9 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 refused | obj |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 refused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | past · perfect | man | my request | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Theme | ||||
| 2 | request | my | nom request «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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