The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 72
If the Sultan was to order me to plunge a dagger in your heart, I should have to obey.
Who acts: Sultan, I · What happens: order, plunge, have, obey · To what, where: me, dagger
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 (Sultan, I), 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 | _ | 6 order | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Sultan | det |
| 3 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 order | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 order | aux |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 order | mark |
| 6 | order | order | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 have | advcl |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 order | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 plunge | mark |
| 9 | plunge | plunge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 order | xcomp |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 dagger | det |
| 11 | dagger | dagger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 plunge | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 heart | case |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 heart | nmod:poss |
| 14 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 plunge | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 order | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 have | nsubj |
| 17 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 have | aux |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 obey | mark |
| 20 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 have | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order a condition, not said to happen | past | the Sultan | me | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | plunge not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Sultan not said here | a dagger | in your heart | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient dagger=Extent in heart=Attribute | |||
| 3 | have | should | I | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | obey | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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