The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 76
Retire, I pray you, lest a crowd should gather in front of my shop."
Who acts: you, I, crowd · What happens: retire, pray, gather · To what, where: you, front
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 (you, I, crowd), 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 | Retire | retire | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 pray | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 pray | nsubj |
| 4 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Retire | conj |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 pray | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gather | punct |
| 7 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 11 gather | mark |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 crowd | det |
| 9 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gather | nsubj |
| 10 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 gather | aux |
| 11 | gather | gather | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Retire | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 front | case |
| 13 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gather | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 shop | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 shop | nmod:poss |
| 16 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 front | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Retire | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Retire | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | retire | imperative | you not said here | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | pray | present | I | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | gather | should | a crowd | front of my shop | vn herd-47.5.2 «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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