The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 52
You have only to go straight to Serendib and give my message, then you are free to come back and do as you will.
Who acts: You · What happens: go, give, be, come back, do · To what, where: Serendib, message
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 (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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 go | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | aux |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 go | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 go | mark |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 8 Serendib | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Serendib | case |
| 8 | Serendib | Serendib | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 go | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 give | cc |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 go | conj |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 message | nmod:poss |
| 12 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 free | punct |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 free | advmod |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 free | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 free | cop |
| 17 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 go | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 come | mark |
| 19 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 free | xcomp |
| 20 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 come | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 do | cc |
| 22 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 come | conj |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 will | mark |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 will | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 do | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | You | Serendib | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to serendib=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | give | infinitive | You not said here | my message | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | you | then | free property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | come back | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | do | present | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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