The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 43
He only begged me to examine the horse with a view (as I quite understood) of making me more sensible of its value."
Who acts: father, I, horse · What happens: beg, examine, understand, make, value · To what, where: me, horse
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 (father, I, horse), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 begged | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 begged | advmod |
| 3 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 begged | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 examine | mark |
| 6 | examine | examine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 begged | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 horse | det |
| 8 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 examine | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 view | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 view | det |
| 11 | view | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 examine | obl |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 understood | punct |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 understood | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 understood | nsubj |
| 15 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 16 understood | advmod |
| 16 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 begged | conj |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 understood | punct |
| 18 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 19 making | mark |
| 19 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 understood | advcl |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 making | iobj |
| 21 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 sensible | advmod |
| 22 | sensible | sensible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 making | xcomp |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 value | case |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 value | nmod:poss |
| 25 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sensible | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 begged | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | father | me | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | examine not said to happen | to-infinitive | father not said here | the horse | with a view | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | |||
| 3 | understand | past | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | make | gerund | I not said here | me | sensible property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=Product | |||
| 5 | value | horse | nom value «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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