The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 93

At last I begged her to cease grieving for him, for although he could not speak or move, by her enchantments she just kept him alive.

Who acts: I, slave, story · What happens: beg, cease, grieve, not speak, move, keep · To what, where: story, last, enchantments, slave · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, slave, story), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 begged	obl
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 begged	nsubj
4	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 begged	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 cease	mark
7	cease	cease	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 begged	xcomp
8	grieving	grieve	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 cease	xcomp
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 grieving	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 speak	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 speak	mark
13	although	although	SCONJ	_	17 speak	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 speak	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 speak	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 speak	advmod
17	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 cease	conj
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 move	cc
19	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 cease	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 enchantments	punct
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 enchantments	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 enchantments	nmod:poss
23	enchantments	enchantment	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 move	obj
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 kept	nsubj
25	just	just	ADV	_	26 kept	advmod
26	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 enchantments	acl:relcl
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 kept	obj
28	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 kept	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	I		story	last		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	cease not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	grieve	gerund	I not said here				for slave	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	not speak speech: other	could	slave					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	move	infinitive	I not said here	story's enchantments				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent enchantment=Theme
6	keep	past	story	slave			alive property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
7	enchant		story					nom enchantment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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