The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 81

Give it up, I implore you, for I would a thousand times rather lose the Talking Bird, and the Singing Tree and the Golden Water, than that you should run into danger."

Who acts: you, I, thousand times · What happens: give up, implore, lose, run · To what, where: accident, you, Talking Bird, danger

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, thousand times), 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	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 Give	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 implore	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 implore	nsubj
6	implore	implore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Give	parataxis
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 implore	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 lose	punct
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 would	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 would	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 lose	aux
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 times	det
13	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 times	nummod
14	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 lose	nsubj
15	rather	rather	ADV	_	16 lose	advmod
16	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 implore	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Bird	det
18	Talking	Talking	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Bird	compound
19	Bird	Bird	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 lose	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Tree	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 Tree	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Tree	det
23	Singing	Singing	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Tree	compound
24	Tree	Tree	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Give	parataxis
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 Water	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Water	det
27	Golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 Water	amod
28	Water	Water	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Tree	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 run	punct
30	than	than	SCONJ	_	34 run	mark
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 run	mark
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 run	nsubj
33	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 run	aux
34	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 Tree	conj
35	into	into	ADP	_	36 danger	case
36	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 run	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 Tree	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give up	imperative	you not said here		accident		vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Source
2	implore	present	I		you		vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	lose	would	a thousand times	the Talking Bird			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Eventuality
4	run	should	you			into danger result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into danger=Result

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/41/81/