The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 89

We would gladly receive you among us, to perform such penance as we do, but we have already told you that this is impossible.

Who acts: We, this · What happens: receive, perform, do, tell, be · To what, where: you, such penance, we · 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 (We, this), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 receive	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 receive	aux
3	gladly	gladly	ADV	_	4 receive	advmod
4	receive	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 receive	obj
6	among	among	ADP	_	7 us	case
7	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 receive	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 perform	punct
9	to	to	PART	_	10 perform	mark
10	perform	perform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 receive	conj
11	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 penance	amod
12	penance	penance	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 perform	obj
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 do	mark
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 do	nsubj
15	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 perform	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 told	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 told	cc
18	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 told	nsubj:pass
19	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 told	aux
20	already	already	ADV	_	21 told	advmod
21	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 receive	parataxis
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 told	iobj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 impossible	mark
24	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 impossible	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 impossible	cop
26	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 told	advcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 receive	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	receive	would	We	you		among us; gladly property	vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent you=Theme among we=Location
2	perform	to-infinitive	We not said here	such penance			vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penance=Theme
3	do	present	we				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	present · perfect · passive		we	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient you=Topic
5	is	present	this			impossible property	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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