The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 95

"Let me," he said, "show you my gratitude for making me more comfortable by telling me what I can do for you."

Who acts: you, dervish · What happens: let, say, show, make, tell, do · To what, where: dervish, gratitude, you · 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, dervish), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
2	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Let	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Let	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 show	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 show	punct
10	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 show	iobj
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 gratitude	nmod:poss
13	gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 show	obj
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 making	mark
15	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 show	advcl
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 making	iobj
17	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 comfortable	advmod
18	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 making	xcomp
19	by	by	SCONJ	_	20 telling	mark
20	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 making	advcl
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 telling	iobj
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 do	obj
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 do	nsubj
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 do	aux
25	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 telling	xcomp
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 you	case
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 do	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	let in a quote	imperative	you not said here	dervish			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	dervish				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	show in a quote	infinitive		my gratitude	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient gratitude=Topic
4	make in a quote	gerund			dervish	comfortable property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=Product
5	tell speech: assert in a quote	gerund			dervish		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
6	do not said to happen, in a quote	can	dervish			for you	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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