The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 49

The man saw I was better than my condition, and begged me to sit down, and in return I told him my whole story.

Who acts: man, I, my · What happens: see, be, beg, sit down, tell, condition · To what, where: me, whole story, man, return · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (man, I, my), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 better	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 better	cop
6	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 saw	ccomp
7	than	than	ADP	_	9 condition	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 condition	nmod:poss
9	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 better	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 begged	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 begged	cc
12	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 begged	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 sit	mark
15	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 begged	xcomp
16	down	down	ADP	_	15 sit	compound:prt
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 told	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 told	cc
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 return	case
20	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 told	obl
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 told	nsubj
22	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	parataxis
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 told	iobj
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 story	nmod:poss
25	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 story	amod
26	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 told	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	the man					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	I				than my condition; good property	tree rules
3	beg speech: request	past	the man not said here		me			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
4	sit down not said to happen	to-infinitive	the man not said here					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	tell speech: assert	past	I	my whole story	man	return		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient story=Topic
6	condition		my					nom condition «state 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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