The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 51
Only tell me, and I will lose no time in getting them."
Who acts: you, I · What happens: tell, lose, get · To what, where: me, things · 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, 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 tell | advmod |
| 2 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 tell | iobj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lose | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 lose | cc |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 lose | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 lose | aux |
| 8 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tell | conj |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 time | det |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lose | obj |
| 11 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 12 getting | mark |
| 12 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 lose | advcl |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 getting | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tell | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | lose | future | I | time | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | get | gerund | I not said here | things = thing | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
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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