The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 71

You have spoken of difficulties; tell me, I entreat you, what they are, so that I may know if I can overcome them, or see if they are beyond my strength."

Who acts: You, I, voices · What happens: speak, tell, entreat, know, overcome, see · To what, where: me, you, voices · 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, voices), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 spoken	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 spoken	aux
3	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 difficulties	case
5	difficulties	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spoken	obl:agent
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 tell	punct
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 spoken	parataxis
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 tell	iobj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 entreat	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 entreat	nsubj
11	entreat	entreat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 tell	ccomp
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 entreat	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 what	punct
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 entreat	parataxis
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 are	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 what	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 know	punct
18	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	22 know	mark
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 so	fixed
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 know	nsubj
21	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 know	aux
22	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 entreat	parataxis
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 overcome	mark
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 overcome	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 overcome	aux
26	overcome	overcome	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 know	ccomp
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 overcome	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 see	punct
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 see	cc
30	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 know	conj
31	if	if	SCONJ	_	36 strength	mark
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 strength	nsubj
33	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 strength	cop
34	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	36 strength	case
35	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 strength	nmod:poss
36	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 see	ccomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spoken	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 spoken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	present · perfect	You				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive			me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
3	entreat	present	I		you		vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
4	know	may	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	overcome a condition, not said to happen	can	I	voices = voice			vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=Theme
6	see	infinitive	I not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	is a condition, not said to happen	present	voices = voice			beyond my strength	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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