The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 17
"Let him do it if he wants to," said the captain. "
Who acts: man, captain · What happens: let, do, want, say · To what, where: man, One · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, captain), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 do | obj |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 wants | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 wants | nsubj |
| 8 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 wants | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 captain | det |
| 14 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | man | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | infinitive | man not said here | One | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | want a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | man | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the captain | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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