The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 64
I am unworthy of the honour you propose to do me, and I can only ask pardon for my boldness."
Who acts: I, you · What happens: be, propose, do, ask · To what, where: honour, me, pardon
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 unworthy | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 unworthy | cop |
| 3 | unworthy | unworthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 honour | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 honour | det |
| 6 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 unworthy | obl |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 propose | nsubj |
| 8 | propose | propose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 honour | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 do | mark |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 propose | ccomp |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 do | iobj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ask | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 ask | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 ask | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 ask | aux |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 ask | advmod |
| 17 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 unworthy | parataxis |
| 18 | pardon | pardon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ask | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 boldness | case |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 boldness | nmod:poss |
| 21 | boldness | boldness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ask | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 unworthy | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 unworthy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | of the honour; unworthy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | propose | present | you | the honour not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | you not said here | me | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | can | I | pardon | for my boldness | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pardon=Recipient |
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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