The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 74

I should have taken you to be a just man, and yet for the sake of obtaining that which does not belong to you, you are ready to invent this horrible falsehood."

Who acts: I, sake, you · What happens: take, be, obtain, not belong, invent · To what, where: you, man, horrible falsehood

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, sake, you), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 taken	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 taken	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 taken	aux
4	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 taken	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	10 man	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 man	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 man	advmod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 taken	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sake	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sake	cc
13	yet	yet	ADV	_	16 sake	advmod
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 sake	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sake	det
16	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 man	conj
17	of	of	SCONJ	_	18 obtaining	mark
18	obtaining	obtain	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 sake	acl
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 belong	mark
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 belong	nsubj
21	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 belong	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 belong	advmod
23	belong	belong	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 obtaining	ccomp
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 you	case
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 belong	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 ready	punct
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 ready	nsubj
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 ready	cop
29	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 taken	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 invent	mark
31	invent	invent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 ready	xcomp
32	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 falsehood	det
33	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 falsehood	amod
34	falsehood	falsehood	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 invent	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 taken	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	take	should · perfect	I		you		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination
2	is a	to-infinitive	I not said here	a man and the sake			tree rules
3	obtain	gerund	the sake not said here				tree rules
4	not belong	present · do-support			you		vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
5	is	present	you			ready property	tree rules
6	invent	to-infinitive	you not said here	this horrible falsehood			vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent falsehood=Result

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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