The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 16

It was my intention to come to Bagdad and to throw myself at the feet of his Highness, who would, I felt certain, be touched by my sad story, and would grant me, besides, his help and protection.

Who acts: I, sad story, Highness · What happens: be, come, throw, feel, touch, grant · To what, where: intention, Bagdad, myself, feet, Highness, help

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, sad story, Highness), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg128:709): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 intention	expl
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 intention	cop
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 intention	nmod:poss
4	intention	intention	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 come	mark
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 intention	csubj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Bagdad	case
8	Bagdad	Bagdad	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 come	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 throw	cc
10	to	to	PART	_	11 throw	mark
11	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 come	conj
12	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 throw	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 feet	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 feet	det
15	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 throw	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 Highness	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 Highness	nmod:poss
18	Highness	Highness	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 feet	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 would	punct
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 touched	nsubj:pass
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 touched	aux
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 felt	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 felt	nsubj
24	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 touched	parataxis
25	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 felt	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 felt	punct
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 touched	aux:pass
28	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 Highness	acl:relcl
29	by	by	ADP	_	32 story	case
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 story	nmod:poss
31	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 story	amod
32	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 touched	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 grant	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 grant	cc
35	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 grant	aux
36	grant	grant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 touched	conj
37	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 grant	iobj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 besides	punct
39	besides	besides	ADV	_	36 grant	advmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 besides	punct
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 help	nmod:poss
42	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 grant	obj
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 protection	cc
44	protection	protection	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 help	conj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 intention	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		my intention				tree rules
2	come	to-infinitive				Bagdad		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bagdad=Initial_Location
3	throw	to-infinitive		myself		the feet of Bagdad's Highness		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent myself=Theme at foot=Destination
4	feel	past	I				certain property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	touch	would · passive	my sad story	Bagdad's Highness				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme
6	grant	would	my sad story not said here	Highness's help and protection	me		besides property	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal help=Theme
7	help		Highness					nom help «act 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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