The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 106

Ali Cogia made a low bow, and pleaded his cause point by point; concluding by imploring the Cadi not to inflict on him such a heavy loss.

Who acts: Ali · What happens: make, plead, conclude, implore, not inflict, point · To what, where: low bow, cause point, Cadi, heavy loss

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ali), 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	Ali	Ali	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 made	nsubj
2	Cogia	Cogia	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Ali	flat
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bow	det
5	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bow	amod
6	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 pleaded	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 pleaded	cc
9	pleaded	plead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	conj
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 point	nmod:poss
11	cause	cause	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 point	amod
12	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pleaded	obj
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 point	case
14	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pleaded	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 concluding	punct
16	concluding	conclude	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 made	advcl
17	by	by	SCONJ	_	18 imploring	mark
18	imploring	implore	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 concluding	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Cadi	det
20	Cadi	Cadi	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 imploring	obj
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 inflict	advmod
22	to	to	PART	_	23 inflict	mark
23	inflict	inflict	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 imploring	advcl
24	on	on	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 inflict	obl
26	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	29 loss	det:predet
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 loss	det
28	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 loss	amod
29	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 inflict	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	Ali	a low bow			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Product
2	plead speech: request	past	Ali not said here	Ali's cause point		by point	tree rules
3	conclude	gerund	Ali not said here				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	implore	gerund	Ali not said here		the Cadi		vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cadi=Recipient
5	not inflict	to-infinitive	Ali not said here	such heavy loss		on Ali	tree rules
6	point		Ali				nom point «cognition 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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