--- title: She begged hard for life, which he was generous enough to give her,… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: She begged hard for life, which he was generous enough to give her, but he bade her to tell him how she had got into partnership with the abominable creatures he had just put to death. Who acts: lady, life, crone. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, life, crone), 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:pg128:21:58 # text = She begged hard for life, which he was generous enough to give her, but he bade her to tell him how she had got into partnership with the abominable creatures he had just put to death. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 begged beg VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 generous generous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ _ 11 enough enough ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 parataxis _ _ 14 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 bade bade VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 19 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 22 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 iobj _ _ 23 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 26 advmod _ _ 24 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 got get VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ _ 27 into into ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 partnership partnership NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 abominable abominable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 creatures creature NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 34 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 just just ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 32 acl:relcl _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | lady | | | | | for life; hard *property* | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for life=Topic | | 2 | **is** | past | life | | | | | enough, generous *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **give** | to-infinitive | | | lady | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | | 4 | **bade** | past | crone | lady | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | crone *not said here* | | crone | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 6 | **get** | past · perfect | lady | | | partnership | | with the abominable creatures | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into partnership=Destination | | 7 | **put** | past · perfect | crone | the abominable creatures *not said here* | | | | to death | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent creature=Goal | 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 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/21/57/) - next →: [sentence 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/21/59/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/21/)