The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 7

Heaven forbid that I should covet your riches; I will rather add to them, for I desire that you shall not leave my kingdom without some tokens of my good will."

Who acts: Heaven, I, you · What happens: forbid, covet, add, desire, not leave · To what, where: riches, kingdom

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 (Heaven, 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	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 forbid	nsubj
2	forbid	forbid	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 covet	mark
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 covet	nsubj
5	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 covet	aux
6	covet	covet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 forbid	advcl
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 riches	nmod:poss
8	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 covet	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 add	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 add	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 add	aux
12	rather	rather	ADV	_	13 add	advmod
13	add	add	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 forbid	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 add	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 desire	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 desire	mark
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 desire	nsubj
19	desire	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 add	conj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 leave	mark
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 leave	nsubj
22	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 leave	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 leave	advmod
24	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 desire	ccomp
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 kingdom	nmod:poss
26	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 leave	obj
27	without	without	ADP	_	29 tokens	case
28	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	29 tokens	det
29	tokens	token	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 leave	obl
30	of	of	SCONJ	_	33 will	mark
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 good	nmod:poss
32	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 will	obl
33	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 tokens	acl:relcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 forbid	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 forbid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	forbid	infinitive	Heaven				vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer
2	covet	should	I	your riches			vn want-32.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot rich=Theme
3	add speech: assert	future	I		riches = rich		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent to they=Co-Patient
4	desire	present	I				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	not leave	shall	you	my kingdom		without some tokens	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=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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