The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 44, sentence 64

I have already begun by punishing the authors of this abominable crime, and I hope you will forgive me when I introduce you to our children, who are the most charming and accomplished creatures in the whole world.

Who acts: I, you, children · What happens: begin, punish, hope, forgive, introduce, be · To what, where: authors, me, you, charming, creatures, whole world · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 44. 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, children), 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 begun	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 begun	aux
3	already	already	ADV	_	4 begun	advmod
4	begun	begin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	by	by	SCONJ	_	6 punishing	mark
6	punishing	punish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 begun	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 authors	det
8	authors	author	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 punishing	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 crime	case
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 crime	det
11	abominable	abominable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 crime	amod
12	crime	crime	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 authors	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hope	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 hope	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 hope	nsubj
16	hope	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 begun	parataxis
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 forgive	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 forgive	aux
19	forgive	forgive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 hope	ccomp
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 forgive	obj
21	when	when	SCONJ	_	23 introduce	mark
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 introduce	nsubj
23	introduce	introduce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 forgive	advcl
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 introduce	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 children	case
26	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 children	nmod:poss
27	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 introduce	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 charming	punct
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 charming	nsubj
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 charming	cop
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 charming	det
32	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	33 charming	advmod
33	charming	charming	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 children	acl:relcl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 accomplished	cc
35	accomplished	accomplish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 hope	conj
36	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 accomplished	obj
37	in	in	ADP	_	40 world	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 world	det
39	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 world	amod
40	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 accomplished	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 begun	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	present · perfect	I				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	punish	gerund	I not said here	the authors of this abominable crime			vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent author=Patient
3	hope	present	I				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	forgive	future	you	me			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
5	introduce	present	I	you		to our children	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent you=Patient to child=Co-Patient
6	is a	present	our children	the charming			tree rules
7	accomplish	past	I not said here	creatures	the whole world		vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Eventuality

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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