The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 67
If, however, I should succeed in doing so, I should live to a great old age.
Who acts: I · What happens: succeed, do, live
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 (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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 however | mark |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 7 succeed | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 succeed | nsubj |
| 6 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 succeed | aux |
| 7 | succeed | succeed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 9 doing | mark |
| 9 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 succeed | advcl |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 doing | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 live | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 live | nsubj |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 live | aux |
| 14 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 succeed | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 age | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 age | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 age | amod |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 age | amod |
| 19 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 live | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 succeed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | succeed | should | I | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | do | gerund | I not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | live | should | I | to a great old age | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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