The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 97

If, as I hope, he grants me my wish, be sure that you wake me an hour before the dawn, and speak to me in these words: 'My sister, if you are not asleep, I beg you, before the sun rises, to tell me one of your charming stories.'

Who acts: I, Highness, you, sun, my · What happens: hope, grant, be, wake, speak, not be · To what, where: wish, me, sister, words, you · Speech: someone speaks here

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, Highness, you, sun), 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	_	8 grants	mark
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 If	punct
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 hope	mark
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 hope	nsubj
5	hope	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 grants	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hope	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 grants	nsubj
8	grants	grant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 sure	advcl
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 grants	obj
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 wish	nmod:poss
11	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grants	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 grants	punct
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 sure	cop
14	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 wake	mark
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 wake	nsubj
17	wake	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 sure	ccomp
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 wake	obj
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 hour	det
20	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wake	obl:unmarked
21	before	before	ADP	_	23 dawn	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 dawn	det
23	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wake	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 speak	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 speak	cc
26	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 sure	conj
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 me	case
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 speak	obl
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 words	case
30	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	31 words	det
31	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 speak	obl
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	35 sister	punct
33	'	'	PUNCT	_	35 sister	punct
34	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 sister	nmod:poss
35	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 speak	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 asleep	punct
37	if	if	SCONJ	_	41 asleep	mark
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 asleep	nsubj
39	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 asleep	cop
40	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 asleep	advmod
41	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 sister	parataxis
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 beg	punct
43	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 beg	nsubj
44	beg	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 asleep	parataxis
45	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	44 beg	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 rises	punct
47	before	before	SCONJ	_	50 rises	mark
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 sun	det
49	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 rises	nsubj
50	rises	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 beg	conj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 tell	punct
52	to	to	PART	_	53 tell	mark
53	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 rises	parataxis
54	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	53 tell	iobj
55	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	53 tell	ccomp
56	of	of	ADP	_	59 stories	case
57	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	59 stories	nmod:poss
58	charming	charming	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 stories	compound
59	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 one	nmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 sister	punct
61	'	'	PUNCT	_	35 sister	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hope	present	I						vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	grant a condition, not said to happen	present	Highness	my wish	me				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal wish=Theme
3	is	imperative	you not said here					sure property	tree rules
4	wake	present	you	me			dawn; hour		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent i=Patient
5	speak speech: other	infinitive	you not said here	My sister	me	this words			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to i=Co-Agent
6	not is a condition, not said to happen	present	you					asleep property	tree rules
7	beg speech: request	present	I		you				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
8	rise	present	the sun						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive			me				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
10	wish		my						nom wish «feeling 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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