The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 79
Remain for a moment with my mother, I beg," she added hastily, "I will return shortly."
Who acts: you, I, spell · What happens: remain, beg, add, return · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. 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, spell), 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 | Remain | remain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 moment | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 moment | det |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Remain | obl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 mother | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mother | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 moment | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 beg | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 beg | nsubj |
| 10 | beg | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Remain | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 added | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 added | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 added | nsubj |
| 14 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 beg | conj |
| 15 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 14 added | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 return | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 return | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 return | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 return | aux |
| 20 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 beg | conj |
| 21 | shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 20 return | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Remain | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Remain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | imperative | you not said here | moment | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | present | I | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | add speech: assert in a quote | past | spell | hastily property | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | return | future | I | shortly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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