The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 37
Step on board and let him conduct thee; but if thou wouldest behold thy kingdom again, see that thou takest not the name of Allah into thy mouth."
Who acts: Step, figure, thou · What happens: let, conduct, behold, see, not name · To what, where: figure, thee, kingdom, that, mouth
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Step, figure, thou), 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 | Step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 let | nsubj |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 board | case |
| 3 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Step | nmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 let | cc |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 let | obj |
| 7 | conduct | conduct | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 let | xcomp |
| 8 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 conduct | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 see | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 see | cc |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 behold | mark |
| 12 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 behold | nsubj |
| 13 | wouldest | would | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 14 behold | aux |
| 14 | behold | behold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 see | advcl |
| 15 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 16 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 behold | obj |
| 17 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 behold | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 behold | punct |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 let | conj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 see | obj |
| 21 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 name | nsubj |
| 22 | takest | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 name | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 name | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 name | det |
| 25 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 see | parataxis |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Allah | case |
| 27 | Allah | Allah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 name | nmod |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 mouth | case |
| 29 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 30 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 30 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 see | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | infinitive | Step on board | figure | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | conduct | infinitive | figure not said here | thee | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | ||||
| 3 | behold a condition, not said to happen | would | thou | thy kingdom | again | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kingdom=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | see | infinitive | Step on board not said here | that | thy mouth | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | not name | present | thou | of Allah | tree rules |
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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