The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 87
All those present begged for his life, but in vain.
Who acts: present · What happens: beg
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 (present), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 present | det:predet |
| 2 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 present | det |
| 3 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 begged | nsubj |
| 4 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 life | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 life | nmod:poss |
| 7 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 begged | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 vain | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 vain | cc |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 vain | case |
| 11 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 begged | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | all present | for present's life | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for life=Topic |
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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