The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 37

But, in order to expiate the sin of avarice, which was my undoing, I oblige each passer-by to give me a blow.

Who acts: sin, I · What happens: expiate, be, oblige, give · To what, where: sin, undoing, passer, blow, me

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 (sin, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 expiate	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 expiate	punct
3	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	6 expiate	mark
4	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 in	fixed
5	to	to	PART	_	6 expiate	mark
6	expiate	expiate	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sin	det
8	sin	sin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 expiate	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 avarice	case
10	avarice	avarice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sin	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 undoing	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 undoing	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 undoing	cop
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 undoing	nmod:poss
15	undoing	undoing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sin	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 oblige	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 oblige	nsubj
18	oblige	oblige	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 expiate	conj
19	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	20 passer	det
20	passer	passer	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 oblige	obj
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 give	punct
22	by	by	SCONJ	_	24 give	mark
23	to	to	PART	_	24 give	mark
24	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 passer	acl:relcl
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 give	iobj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 blow	det
27	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 give	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 expiate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	expiate	to-infinitive		the sin of avarice and my undoing		tree rules
2	is a	past	the sin of avarice and my undoing	my undoing		tree rules
3	oblige	present	I	each passer		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passer=Patient
4	give	to-infinitive	I not said here	a blow	me	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient blow=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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