The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 98

I cannot tell them from the mass of others, but you must know, and point them out to me, I beg you, for I wish to carry them away."

Who acts: I, you · What happens: not tell, know, point out, beg, wish, carry away · To what, where: stones, mass, me, you · 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 (I, you), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 tell	advmod
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 mass	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mass	det
8	mass	mass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 others	case
10	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 mass	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 know	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 know	cc
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 know	nsubj
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 know	aux
15	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tell	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 point	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 point	cc
18	point	point	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tell	conj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 point	obj
20	out	out	ADP	_	18 point	compound:prt
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 me	case
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 point	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 beg	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 beg	nsubj
25	beg	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	parataxis
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 beg	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 wish	punct
28	for	for	SCONJ	_	30 wish	mark
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 wish	nsubj
30	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 beg	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 carry	mark
32	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 wish	xcomp
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 carry	obj
34	away	away	ADV	_	32 carry	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	can	I		stones = stone	the mass of others		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	know	must	you					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	point out	infinitive	I not said here	stones = stone	me			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to i=Recipient
4	beg speech: request	present	I		you			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
5	wish	present	I					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	carry away not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	stones = stone			away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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