The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 56

But add, I pray you, to your goodness by further informing me where I can find them."

Who acts: you, I · What happens: add, pray, inform, find · To what, where: you, me, treasures

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	But	but	CCONJ	_	2 add	cc
2	add	add	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 pray	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 pray	nsubj
5	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 add	advcl
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 pray	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 goodness	punct
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 goodness	case
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 goodness	nmod:poss
10	goodness	goodness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 add	obl
11	by	by	SCONJ	_	13 informing	mark
12	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 informing	advmod
13	informing	inform	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 add	advcl
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 informing	obj
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 find	advmod
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 find	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 find	aux
18	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 informing	advcl
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 find	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 add	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 add	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	imperative	you not said here			to your goodness	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to goodness=Co-Patient
2	pray	present	I	you			tree rules
3	inform speech: other	gerund	you not said here		me	far property	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
4	find	can	I	treasures = treasure			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic

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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