--- title: "My friends, I beg that you will give me your attention while I rela… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: "My friends, I beg that you will give me your attention while I relate the adventures of my second voyage, which you will find even more astonishing than the first." Who acts: friends, you, your, my. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14, with its depende --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/14/6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Arabian Nights Entertainments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/) / [Opening, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/14/) / 6 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 6 "My friends, I beg that you will give me your attention while I relate the adventures of my second voyage, which you will find even more astonishing than the first." **Who acts:** friends, you, your, my · **What happens:** beg, give, relate, find, astonish, attend · **To what, where:** attention, friends, adventures, second voyage · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friends, you, your, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg128:14:6 # text = "My friends, I beg that you will give me your attention while I relate the adventures of my second voyage, which you will find even more astonishing than the first." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 beg beg VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 that that SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 ccomp _ _ 11 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 iobj _ _ 12 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 attention attention NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 while while SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 relate relate VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 adventures adventure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 22 amod _ _ 22 voyage voyage NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 obj _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 acl:relcl _ _ 28 even even ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 30 advmod _ _ 30 astonishing astonish VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 obj _ _ 31 than than ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **beg** *speech: request* *in a quote* | present | My friends | | | | | | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **give** *in a quote* | future | you | your attention | My friends *= friend* | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient attention=Theme | | 3 | **relate** *in a quote* | present | My friends *= friend* | the adventures of my second voyage | | | | | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Theme | | 4 | **find** *in a quote* | future | you | my second voyage | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Topic | | 5 | **astonish** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | than the first | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **attend** *in a quote* | | your | | | | | | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent | | 7 | **adventure** *in a quote* | | | my second voyage | | | | | nom adventure «act transitive»: of=patient | | 8 | **voyage** *in a quote* | | my | | | | | | nom voyage «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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/14/5/) - next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/14/7/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/14/)