The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 15
My brother," I said firmly, "pray say no more, but do what I ask.
Who acts: brother, I · What happens: say, pray, do, ask · To what, where: more · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 brother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 brother | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | firmly | firmly | ADV | _ | 6 said | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pray | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 pray | punct |
| 10 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 11 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 pray | ccomp |
| 12 | no | no | ADV | _ | 13 more | advmod |
| 13 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 say | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 do | cc |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 ask | obj |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 ask | nsubj |
| 19 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 do | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | My brother | firmly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | pray | present | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | infinitive | more | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent more=Topic | |||||
| 4 | do | present | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | present | I | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient |
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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