The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 77

I implore you not to punish me for what was not my fault, and not to visit on me any misfortune that may occur."

Who acts: I, misfortune · What happens: implore, not punish, not be, not visit, occur · To what, where: you, me, misfortune

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, misfortune), 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	2 implore	nsubj
2	implore	implore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 implore	obj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 punish	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 punish	mark
6	punish	punish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 implore	advcl
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 punish	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	13 fault	case
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 fault	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 fault	cop
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 fault	advmod
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 fault	nmod:poss
13	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 punish	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 visit	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 visit	cc
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 visit	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 visit	mark
18	visit	visit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 implore	conj
19	on	on	ADP	_	20 me	case
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 visit	obl
21	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	22 misfortune	det
22	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 visit	obj
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 occur	nsubj
24	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 occur	aux
25	occur	occur	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 misfortune	acl:relcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 implore	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 implore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	implore	present	I		you		vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	not punish	to-infinitive	I not said here	me			vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
3	not is	past				for my fault	tree rules
4	not visit	to-infinitive	I not said here	any misfortune		on me	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent misfortune=Co-Agent
5	occur	may	any misfortune				vn occur-48.3-1 «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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