The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 51

"I admit," said he, "that you have indeed had some extraordinary experiences, but I do not see why they should hinder you from doing as I wish.

Who acts: Majesty, you, experiences · What happens: admit, say, have, not see, hinder, do · To what, where: that, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Majesty, you, experiences), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 admit	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 admit	nsubj
3	admit	admit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 admit	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 admit	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 had	obj
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
12	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 had	aux
13	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	14 had	advmod
14	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 said	ccomp
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 experiences	det
16	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 experiences	amod
17	experiences	experience	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 had	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 see	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 see	cc
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 see	nsubj
21	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 see	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 see	advmod
23	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 had	conj
24	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	27 hinder	advmod
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 hinder	nsubj
26	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 hinder	aux
27	hinder	hinder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 see	ccomp
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 hinder	obj
29	from	from	SCONJ	_	30 doing	mark
30	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 hinder	advcl
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 wish	mark
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 wish	nsubj
33	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 doing	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	admit speech: other in a quote	present	Majesty			vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	Majesty			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have in a quote	present · perfect	you	that	indeed property	tree rules
4	not see in a quote	present · do-support	Majesty			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	hinder in a quote	should	experiences = experience	you		vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer you=Eventuality
6	do in a quote	gerund	experiences = experience not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	wish in a quote	present	Majesty			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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