The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 12
"Let her live," entreated the grand-vizir, "and banish her from your presence for the rest of her days.
Who acts: you, dread · What happens: let, live, entreat, banish · To what, where: dread, grand vizir, presence
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 41. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, dread), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 entreated | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 entreated | punct |
| 7 | entreated | entreat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Let | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 vizir | det |
| 9 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 vizir | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 grand | punct |
| 11 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 entreated | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 banish | cc |
| 15 | banish | banish | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Let | conj |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 banish | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 presence | case |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 presence | nmod:poss |
| 19 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 banish | obl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 rest | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 rest | det |
| 22 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 banish | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 days | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 days | nmod:poss |
| 25 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 rest | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | imperative | you not said here | dread | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live in a quote | infinitive | dread not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | entreat | past | you not said here | the grand vizir | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vizir=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | banish in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | dread | your presence | for the rest of dread's days | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent she=Theme from presence=Source |
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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