The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 53
Will you do me the favour to trade with it, and when I meet with his heirs I shall be able to give them the money, though it will be only just that you shall have a portion for your trouble."
Who acts: you, I, money, your · What happens: do, trade, meet, be, give, trouble · To what, where: favour, me, heirs, money
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, money, your), 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 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 do | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 do | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 do | iobj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 favour | det |
| 6 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 do | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 trade | mark |
| 8 | trade | trade | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 favour | acl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 trade | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 meet | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 meet | cc |
| 13 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 15 meet | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 meet | nsubj |
| 15 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 do | parataxis |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 heirs | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 heirs | nmod:poss |
| 18 | heirs | heir | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 meet | obl |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 able | nsubj |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 able | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 able | cop |
| 22 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 heirs | acl:relcl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 give | mark |
| 24 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 able | xcomp |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 give | iobj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 money | det |
| 27 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 give | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 have | punct |
| 29 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 38 have | mark |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 have | nsubj |
| 31 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 have | aux |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 38 have | cop |
| 33 | only | only | ADV | _ | 38 have | advmod |
| 34 | just | just | ADV | _ | 38 have | advmod |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 have | mark |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 38 have | nsubj |
| 37 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 have | aux |
| 38 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 meet | conj |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 portion | det |
| 40 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 have | obj |
| 41 | for | for | ADP | _ | 43 trouble | case |
| 42 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 trouble | nmod:poss |
| 43 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 have | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 45 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | future | you | the favour | me | tree rules | |||
| 2 | trade | to-infinitive | you not said here | the favour not said here | with favour | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with it=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | meet | present | I | with passenger's heirs | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with heir=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | is | shall | I | passenger's heirs not said here | able property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | give | to-infinitive | I not said here | the money | heirs = heir | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient money=Theme | |||
| 6 | is | shall · future | money | for your trouble; have property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | trouble | your | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=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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