The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 23
He ended by imploring Zobeida not to confound the innocent with the guilty and to spare his life.
Who acts: man · What happens: end, implore, not confound, spare · To what, where: Zobeida, innocent, life
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ended | nsubj |
| 2 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 4 imploring | mark |
| 4 | imploring | implore | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 ended | advcl |
| 5 | Zobeida | Zobeida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 imploring | obj |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 confound | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 confound | mark |
| 8 | confound | confound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 imploring | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 innocent | det |
| 10 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 confound | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 guilty | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 guilty | det |
| 13 | guilty | guilty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 innocent | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 spare | cc |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 spare | mark |
| 16 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 confound | conj |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 life | nmod:poss |
| 18 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 spare | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | past | man | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | implore | gerund | man not said here | Zobeida | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent zobeida=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not confound | to-infinitive | man not said here | the innocent | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus innocent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | spare | to-infinitive | man not said here | man's life | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent life=Asset |
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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