The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 37

When I came to myself I implored the genius to keep me no longer in this state of suspense, but to lose no time in putting an end to my sufferings.

Who acts: I, my · What happens: come, implore, keep, lose, put, suffer · To what, where: myself, genius, me, end

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 implored	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 myself	case
5	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 came	obl
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 implored	nsubj
7	implored	implore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 genius	det
9	genius	genius	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 implored	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 keep	mark
11	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 implored	advcl
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 keep	obj
13	no	no	ADV	_	14 longer	advmod
14	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 keep	advmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 state	case
16	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 state	det
17	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 longer	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 suspense	case
19	suspense	suspense	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 state	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 lose	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 lose	cc
22	to	to	PART	_	23 lose	mark
23	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 implored	conj
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 time	det
25	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lose	obj
26	in	in	SCONJ	_	27 putting	mark
27	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 lose	advcl
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 end	det
29	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 putting	obj
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 sufferings	case
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 sufferings	nmod:poss
32	sufferings	suffering	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 putting	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 implored	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	I		myself			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to myself=Initial_Location
2	implore	past	I	the genius				vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent genius=Recipient
3	keep	to-infinitive	I not said here	me			long property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
4	lose	to-infinitive	I not said here			time		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	put	gerund	I not said here	a end			to my sufferings	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent end=Goal
6	suffer		my					nom suffering «state intransitive»: 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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