The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 16
You have most generously responded to my wishes up to this time, do not spoil my recollection of you for a thing of such little consequence.
Who acts: You, my · What happens: respond, not spoil, wish, recollect · To what, where: recollection, you
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 (You, 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 responded | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 responded | aux |
| 3 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 4 generously | advmod |
| 4 | generously | generously | ADV | _ | 5 responded | advmod |
| 5 | responded | respond | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 wishes | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wishes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wishes | wish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 responded | obl |
| 9 | up | up | ADV | _ | 5 responded | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 time | case |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 time | det |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 responded | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 spoil | punct |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 spoil | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 spoil | advmod |
| 16 | spoil | spoil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 responded | conj |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 recollection | nmod:poss |
| 18 | recollection | recollection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 spoil | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 you | case |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 recollection | nmod |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 thing | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 thing | det |
| 23 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 spoil | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 consequence | case |
| 25 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 consequence | amod |
| 26 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 consequence | amod |
| 27 | consequence | consequence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 thing | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 responded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | respond speech: other | present · perfect | You | time | to my wishes; generously property | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to wish=Theme | |||
| 2 | not spoil | infinitive · do-support | You not said here | my recollection of you | for a thing of such little consequence | tree rules | |||
| 3 | wish | my | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | recollect | my | you | nom recollection «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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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