The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 28
If, however, you wish to share our destiny we will delay no longer."
Who acts: you, destiny · What happens: wish, share, delay
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, destiny), 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 | _ | 6 wish | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 wish | nsubj |
| 6 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 share | mark |
| 8 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 wish | xcomp |
| 9 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 destiny | nmod:poss |
| 10 | destiny | destiny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 delay | nsubj |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 delay | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 delay | aux |
| 13 | delay | delay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 share | ccomp |
| 14 | no | no | ADV | _ | 15 longer | advmod |
| 15 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 delay | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wish | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | present | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | share not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | delay | future | our destiny | long property | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent |
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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