The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 37

Begin then, I entreat you, without delay."

Who acts: you, I · What happens: begin, entreat · To what, where: you

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. 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), 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	Begin	begin	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Begin	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 entreat	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 entreat	nsubj
5	entreat	entreat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Begin	parataxis
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 entreat	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 delay	punct
8	without	without	ADP	_	9 delay	case
9	delay	delay	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 entreat	conj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Begin	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Begin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	imperative	you not said here				then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	entreat	present	I		you				vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

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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