The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 74

So counsel me, I pray, whom to send on the undertaking."

Who acts: you, I · What happens: counsel, pray, send · To what, where: me, undertaking

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	So	so	ADV	_	2 counsel	advmod
2	counsel	counsel	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 counsel	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 pray	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 pray	nsubj
6	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 counsel	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 send	punct
8	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 send	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 send	mark
10	send	send	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 pray	conj
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 undertaking	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 undertaking	det
13	undertaking	undertaking	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 send	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 counsel	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 counsel	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	roles by
1	counsel speech: other	imperative	you not said here	me		vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	pray	present	I			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	send	to-infinitive	I not said here		the undertaking	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme

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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