The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 20
Therefore I desire that you will marry a rich and beautiful lady whom I will find for you, and think no more of your own country."
Who acts: I, you · What happens: desire, marry, find, think · To what, where: rich lady, more
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 3 desire | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 desire | nsubj |
| 3 | desire | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 marry | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 marry | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 marry | aux |
| 7 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 desire | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 lady | det |
| 9 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 lady | amod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 beautiful | cc |
| 11 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 rich | conj |
| 12 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 marry | obj |
| 13 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 find | obj |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 find | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 find | aux |
| 16 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 lady | acl:relcl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 you | case |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 find | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 think | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 think | cc |
| 21 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 desire | conj |
| 22 | no | no | ADV | _ | 23 more | advmod |
| 23 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 think | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 country | case |
| 25 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 country | nmod:poss |
| 26 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 country | amod |
| 27 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 more | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 desire | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 desire | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | desire | present | I | therefore property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | marry | future | you | a rich lady | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Patient | ||||
| 3 | find | future | I | a rich lady | for you | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent whom=Theme for you=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | think speech: other | infinitive | I not said here | more | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot more=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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