The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 42
I cried, "as you wish to spare my life, be generous, and spare it altogether.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: cry, wish, spare, be · To what, where: life · Speech: someone speaks here
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, you), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 cried | nsubj |
| 2 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 generous | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 generous | punct |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 wish | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 wish | nsubj |
| 7 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 generous | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 spare | mark |
| 9 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 wish | xcomp |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 life | nmod:poss |
| 11 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 spare | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 wish | punct |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 generous | cop |
| 14 | generous | generous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 cried | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 spare | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 spare | cc |
| 17 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 generous | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 spare | obj |
| 19 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 17 spare | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | I | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | wish in a quote | present | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | spare not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | my life | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent life=Asset | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | infinitive | generous property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | spare in a quote | infinitive | life | altogether property | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent it=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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