The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 65

You could give me no greater pleasure, for I wish to make him my grand-vizir, and to give him to you for your husband."

Who acts: You, I · What happens: give, wish, make · To what, where: greater pleasure, me, grand vizir, Sultan

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 (You, 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 give	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 give	aux
3	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 give	iobj
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 pleasure	det
6	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 pleasure	amod
7	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 give	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wish	punct
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 wish	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 wish	nsubj
11	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 give	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 make	mark
13	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 wish	xcomp
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 make	obj
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 vizir	nmod:poss
16	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 vizir	amod
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 grand	punct
18	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 make	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 give	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 give	cc
21	to	to	PART	_	22 give	mark
22	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 give	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 give	iobj
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 you	case
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 give	obl
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 husband	case
27	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 husband	nmod:poss
28	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 give	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 give	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	could	You	no greater pleasure	me		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient pleasure=Theme
2	wish	present	I				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	make not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	my grand vizir	Sultan		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary vizir=Product
4	give	to-infinitive	You not said here		Sultan	to you; for your husband	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Theme to you=Recipient for husband=Asset

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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