The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 59
I will only ask you to give me a receipt, and you can pay the money at your leisure."
Who acts: I, you · What happens: ask, give, pay · To what, where: you, receipt, me, money, leisure
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 (I, you), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 ask | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 ask | aux |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 ask | advmod |
| 4 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 ask | iobj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 give | mark |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ask | xcomp |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 give | iobj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 receipt | det |
| 10 | receipt | receipt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 give | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pay | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 pay | cc |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 pay | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 pay | aux |
| 15 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ask | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 money | det |
| 17 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pay | obj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 leisure | case |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 leisure | nmod:poss |
| 20 | leisure | leisure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pay | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | future | I | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | give not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | a receipt | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient receipt=Theme | |||
| 3 | pay | can | you | the money | your leisure | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset |
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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