The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 84
Spare my life," he cried, "and yours will be spared."
Who acts: you, physician · What happens: spare, cry · To what, where: life, yours · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, physician), 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 | Spare | spare | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 life | nmod:poss |
| 3 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Spare | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Spare | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 spared | cc |
| 11 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 spared | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 spared | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 spared | aux:pass |
| 14 | spared | spare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 cried | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Spare | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Spare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spare | imperative | you not said here | my life | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | physician | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | spare | future · passive | yours | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: subject=Asset |
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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