The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 102
When she was tired she said to Amina, "My sister, I can do no more; come, I pray you, and take my place."
Who acts: Sadie · What happens: be, say, do, come, pray, take · To what, where: Amina, more, place · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sadie), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 tired | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tired | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tired | cop |
| 4 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tired | acl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Amina | case |
| 8 | Amina | Amina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sister | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 sister | punct |
| 11 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 sister | nmod:poss |
| 12 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Amina | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sister | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 do | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 do | aux |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 more | det |
| 18 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 do | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 come | punct |
| 20 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 tired | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 pray | punct |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 pray | nsubj |
| 23 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 come | advcl |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 pray | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 take | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 take | cc |
| 27 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 23 pray | conj |
| 28 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 place | nmod:poss |
| 29 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 take | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tired | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 tired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Sadie | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Sadie | Amina | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to amina=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | can | Sadie | no more | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | come in a quote | infinitive | Sadie not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | pray in a quote | present | Sadie | Amina | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | take in a quote | infinitive | Sadie not said here | my place | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=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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