The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 8
I have come to ask whether you would do me the favour to keep this vase of olives for me till I come back?"
Who acts: I, you · What happens: come, ask, do, keep, come back · To what, where: favour, me, vase · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | 3 come | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | aux |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 ask | mark |
| 5 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 come | xcomp |
| 6 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 do | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 do | aux |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ask | ccomp |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 do | iobj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 favour | det |
| 12 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 do | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 keep | mark |
| 14 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ask | xcomp |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 vase | det |
| 16 | vase | vase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 keep | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 olives | case |
| 18 | olives | olive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 vase | nmod |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 keep | obl |
| 21 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 23 come | mark |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 come | nsubj |
| 23 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 keep | advcl |
| 24 | back | back | ADV | _ | 23 come | advmod |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present · perfect | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do | would | you | the favour | me | tree rules | |||
| 4 | keep not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | this vase of olives | for me | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vase=Theme | |||
| 5 | come back | present | I | 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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