The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 19

But if, as I hope, he really can write, for he is the cleverest monkey I ever saw, I will adopt him as my son.

Who acts: I, man · What happens: hope, write, be, see, adopt · To what, where: cleverest monkey, man

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 (I, man), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 write	cc
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 hope	mark
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hope	punct
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 hope	mark
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 hope	nsubj
6	hope	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 write	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hope	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 write	nsubj
9	really	really	ADV	_	11 write	advmod
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 write	aux
11	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 monkey	punct
13	for	for	ADP	_	18 monkey	case
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 monkey	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 monkey	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 monkey	det
17	cleverest	clever	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 monkey	amod
18	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 write	conj
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 saw	nsubj
20	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	21 saw	advmod
21	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 monkey	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 adopt	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 adopt	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 adopt	aux
25	adopt	adopt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 write	advcl
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 adopt	obj
27	as	as	ADP	_	29 son	case
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 son	nmod:poss
29	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 adopt	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 write	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hope	present	I				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	write	can	man				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	man			for the cleverest monkey	tree rules
4	see	past	I	the cleverest monkey not said here	ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer monkey=Stimulus
5	adopt	future	I	man		as my son	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme as son=Attribute

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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