The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 97
But, sire, I implore your mercy, for I am innocent."
Who acts: I · What happens: implore, be · To what, where: sire
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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 implore | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sire | punct |
| 3 | sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 implore | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sire | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 implore | nsubj |
| 6 | implore | implore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mercy | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 implore | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 innocent | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 innocent | case |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 innocent | nsubj |
| 12 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 innocent | cop |
| 13 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 implore | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 implore | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 implore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | implore | present | I | sire | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mercy=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | I | innocent property | tree rules |
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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