The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 88

The physician on his knees, and bound, said to the king: "At least let me put my affairs in order, and leave my books to persons who will make good use of them.

Who acts: physician, persons · What happens: say, let, put, leave, make, use · To what, where: king, physician, least, affairs, order, books · 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 (physician, persons), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 physician	det
2	physician	physician	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 knees	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 knees	nmod:poss
5	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 physician	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bound	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bound	cc
8	bound	bound	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 physician	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 physician	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 king	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 king	det
13	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obl
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 let	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 let	punct
16	At	at	ADP	_	17 least	case
17	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 let	obl
18	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 let	obj
20	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 let	xcomp
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 affairs	nmod:poss
22	affairs	affair	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 put	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 order	case
24	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 put	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 leave	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 leave	cc
27	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 let	conj
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 books	nmod:poss
29	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 leave	obj
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 persons	case
31	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 leave	obl
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 make	nsubj
33	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 make	aux
34	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 persons	acl:relcl
35	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 use	amod
36	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 make	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 them	case
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 use	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the physician on physician's knees and bound		the king		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient clause=Topic
2	let in a quote	infinitive		the physician on physician's knees and bound = physician		least	tree rules
3	put in a quote	infinitive	the physician on physician's knees and bound = physician not said here	my affairs		order	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent affair=Theme in order=Destination
4	leave in a quote	infinitive		my books	persons		vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent book=Theme to person=Recipient
5	make in a quote	future	persons	good use of persons			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Product
6	use in a quote			persons = person			nom use «act transitive»: of=patient

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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