The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 39

This only we may say, that it cost us each our right eye, and has imposed upon us our nightly penance."

Who acts: This, gate · What happens: say, cost, impose · To what, where: right eye, us, nightly penance · 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 (This, gate), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 say	nsubj:outer
2	only	only	ADV	_	5 say	advmod
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 say	nsubj
4	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cost	punct
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 cost	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cost	nsubj
9	cost	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	ccomp
10	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 cost	iobj
11	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	14 eye	det
12	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 eye	nmod:poss
13	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 eye	amod
14	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cost	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 imposed	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 imposed	cc
17	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 imposed	aux
18	imposed	impose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 cost	conj
19	upon	upon	ADP	_	20 us	case
20	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 imposed	obl
21	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 penance	nmod:poss
22	nightly	nightly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 penance	amod
23	penance	penance	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 imposed	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	may	This				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	cost	past	gate	our right eye	us		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme we=Beneficiary eye=Value
3	impose	present · perfect	gate not said here	our nightly penance		upon us	vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penance=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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