The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 43
I myself should be buried with the Queen if she were the first to die."
Who acts: place · What happens: bury, be, die · To what, where: I
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 (place), 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 | 5 buried | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 1 I | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 buried | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 buried | aux:pass |
| 5 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 Queen | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Queen | det |
| 8 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 buried | obl |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 first | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 first | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 first | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 first | det |
| 13 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 buried | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 die | mark |
| 15 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 first | acl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 buried | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 buried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bury | should · passive | I | with the Queen | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | place | first property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | die | to-infinitive | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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