The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 3

Tell me, I pray you, if you can, so that I may not have travelled on a useless quest."

Who acts: you, I · What happens: tell, pray, not travell · To what, where: me, you, useless quest · 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 (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	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
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	1 Tell	advcl
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 pray	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 can	punct
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 can	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 can	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 pray	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 travelled	punct
12	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	18 travelled	mark
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 so	fixed
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 travelled	nsubj
15	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 travelled	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 travelled	advmod
17	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 travelled	aux
18	travelled	travell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Tell	parataxis
19	on	on	ADP	_	22 quest	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 quest	det
21	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 quest	amod
22	quest	quest	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 travelled	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Tell	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	pray	present	I	you			tree rules
3	not travell	may · perfect	I			a useless quest	tree rules

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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