The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 77
However, I will be revenged on her somehow, and I beg you will give me your help in the matter, and to tell me anything that you can think of that is likely to mortify her."
Who acts: I, you, your · What happens: revenge, beg, give, tell, think, be · To what, where: I, help, me, matter, anything, wife · Speech: someone speaks here
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, your), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 6 revenged | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 revenged | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 revenged | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 revenged | aux:pass |
| 6 | revenged | revenge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 likely | advcl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 revenged | obl |
| 9 | somehow | somehow | ADV | _ | 6 revenged | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 beg | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 beg | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 beg | nsubj |
| 13 | beg | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 revenged | conj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 give | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 give | aux |
| 16 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 beg | ccomp |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 give | iobj |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 help | nmod:poss |
| 19 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 give | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 matter | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 matter | det |
| 22 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 give | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 tell | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 tell | cc |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 tell | mark |
| 26 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 beg | conj |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 tell | iobj |
| 28 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 26 tell | obj |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 think | obj |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 think | nsubj |
| 31 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 think | aux |
| 32 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 anything | acl:relcl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 that | case |
| 34 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 think | obl |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 likely | cop |
| 36 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 mortify | mark |
| 38 | mortify | mortify | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 likely | xcomp |
| 39 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 mortify | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 36 likely | punct |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 likely | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | revenge | future · passive | I | on wife; however, somehow property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | present | I | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | give | future | you | your help | me | the matter | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient help=Theme | ||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | I not said here | anything | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient anything=Topic | |||
| 5 | think speech: other | can | you | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is | present | likely property | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | mortify | to-infinitive | wife | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | |||||
| 8 | help | your | nom help «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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