The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 70
If I fail, my death will be a glorious one, and if I succeed I shall have done a great service to my country."
Who acts: I, death, my · What happens: fail, be, succeed, do, die · To what, where: glorious one, great service
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, death, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 fail | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 fail | nsubj |
| 3 | fail | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 one | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 fail | punct |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 death | nmod:poss |
| 6 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 one | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 one | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 one | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 one | det |
| 10 | glorious | glorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 one | amod |
| 11 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 succeed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 succeed | cc |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 succeed | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 succeed | nsubj |
| 16 | succeed | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 one | conj |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 done | nsubj |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 done | aux |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 done | aux |
| 20 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 succeed | ccomp |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 service | det |
| 22 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 service | amod |
| 23 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 done | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 country | case |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 country | nmod:poss |
| 26 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 done | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 one | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fail a condition, not said to happen | present | I | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | future | my death | a glorious one | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | succeed a condition, not said to happen | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | do | shall · perfect | I | a great service | to my country | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | die | my | nom death «event 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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