The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 16

"Nothing will make me give it up," replied the prince, "and for the last time I ask you to tell me where I am to go."

Who acts: Nothing, prince, I · What happens: make, give up, reply, ask, tell, be · To what, where: prince, best, you, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 42. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nothing, prince, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct
2	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 make	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 make	obj
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 make	xcomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 give	iobj
8	up	up	ADP	_	6 give	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 replied	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 replied	punct
11	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 make	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 prince	det
13	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 replied	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 replied	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 ask	cc
17	for	for	ADP	_	20 time	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 time	det
19	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 time	amod
20	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ask	obl
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 ask	nsubj
22	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 make	conj
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 ask	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 tell	mark
25	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 ask	xcomp
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 tell	iobj
27	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	25 tell	ccomp
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 where	nsubj
29	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 where	cop
30	to	to	PART	_	31 go	mark
31	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 where	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	make in a quote	future	Nothing	the prince = prince				tree rules
2	give up in a quote	infinitive	the prince = prince not said here		best = good			vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Source
3	reply speech: assert	past	the prince					vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	ask speech: ask in a quote	present	I		you	time		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
5	tell speech: assert not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	I not said here		me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
6	is in a quote	present	I				where property	tree rules
7	go in a quote	to-infinitive	I not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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