The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 43

Grant my prayer, and pardon my crime, as the best man in the whole world forgave his neighbour who was eaten up with envy of him."

Who acts: you, best man, my · What happens: grant, pardon, forgive, eat up, pray, incriminate · To what, where: prayer, crime, neighbour, man

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 (you, best man, 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	Grant	grant	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 prayer	nmod:poss
3	prayer	prayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Grant	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 pardon	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 pardon	cc
6	pardon	pardon	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Grant	parataxis
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 crime	nmod:poss
8	crime	crime	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pardon	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 forgave	punct
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 forgave	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 man	det
12	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 man	amod
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 forgave	nsubj
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 world	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 world	det
16	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 world	amod
17	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 man	nmod
18	forgave	forgive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pardon	conj
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 neighbour	nmod:poss
20	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 forgave	obj
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 eaten	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 eaten	aux:pass
23	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 neighbour	acl:relcl
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 eaten	compound:prt
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 envy	case
26	envy	envy	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 eaten	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 envy	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Grant	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Grant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grant	imperative	you not said here	my prayer		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent prayer=Theme
2	pardon	infinitive		my crime		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crime=Theme
3	forgive	past	the best man in the whole world	man's neighbour		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neighbour=Theme
4	eat up	past · passive		man's neighbour	with envy of man	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	pray		my			nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent
6	incriminate		my			nom crime «act transitive»: poss=agent
7	envy			man		nom envy «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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