The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 69
Give it up, I pray you, and return home, and do not ask me to help you to a cruel death."
Who acts: you, I · What happens: give up, pray, return, not ask, help · To what, where: adventure, you, me
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 | 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 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 | 1 Give | advcl |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 pray | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 return | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 return | cc |
| 10 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Give | parataxis |
| 11 | home | home | ADV | _ | 10 return | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ask | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ask | cc |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 ask | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 ask | advmod |
| 16 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Give | conj |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 ask | iobj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 help | mark |
| 19 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 ask | xcomp |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 help | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 death | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 death | det |
| 23 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 death | amod |
| 24 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 help | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give up | imperative | you not said here | adventure | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Source | ||||
| 2 | pray | present | I | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | return | infinitive | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not ask speech: ask | infinitive · do-support | you not said here | me | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | help not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | you | to a cruel death | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary |
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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