The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 38

Enter boldly at the gate, which always stands open, but do not ask us to tell you what we saw or what befel us there, for that you will learn for yourself.

Who acts: you, gate, we · What happens: enter, stand, not ask, tell, see, befel · To what, where: gate, us, you · Speech: someone speaks here

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, gate, we), 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	Enter	enter	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	boldly	boldly	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Enter	advmod
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 gate	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gate	det
5	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Enter	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 stands	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 stands	nsubj
8	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 stands	advmod
9	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 gate	acl:relcl
10	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stands	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ask	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 ask	cc
13	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 ask	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 ask	advmod
15	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Enter	conj
16	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 ask	iobj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 tell	mark
18	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 ask	xcomp
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 tell	iobj
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 saw	obj
21	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 saw	nsubj
22	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 tell	ccomp
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 befel	cc
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 befel	obj
25	befel	befel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 saw	conj
26	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 befel	obj
27	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 befel	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 learn	punct
29	for	for	SCONJ	_	33 learn	mark
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 learn	mark
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 learn	nsubj
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 learn	aux
33	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 befel	conj
34	for	for	ADP	_	35 yourself	case
35	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 learn	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Enter	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	enter	imperative	you not said here			the gate	boldly property	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stand	present	the gate				always, open property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not ask speech: ask	infinitive · do-support	you not said here		us			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic
4	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
5	see	past	we					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
6	befel	present	we not said here	us		there		tree rules
7	learn	future	you				for yourself	vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: 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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