The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 15
Let her live then," he said, "since you have it so much at heart.
Who acts: you, passion, Sultan · What happens: let, live, say, have · To what, where: passion, command, heart · Speech: someone speaks here
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, passion, Sultan), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 live | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 11 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 13 have | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 have | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 have | obj |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 much | advmod |
| 16 | much | much | ADV | _ | 13 have | advmod |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 heart | case |
| 18 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 have | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | passion | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | infinitive | passion not said here | then | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Sultan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | have | present | you | command | heart | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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