The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 98
Now through you the whole town will be enriched without further loss of life, therefore you shall not only receive your liberty, but I will also bestow a fortune upon you."
Who acts: you, I · What happens: enrich, not receive, bestow · To what, where: whole town, liberty, fortune
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, I), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 enriched | advmod |
| 2 | through | through | ADP | _ | 3 you | case |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 1 Now | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 town | det |
| 5 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 town | amod |
| 6 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 enriched | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 enriched | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 enriched | aux:pass |
| 9 | enriched | enrich | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | without | without | ADP | _ | 12 loss | case |
| 11 | further | further | ADV | _ | 12 loss | advmod |
| 12 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 enriched | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 life | case |
| 14 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 loss | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 receive | punct |
| 16 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 21 receive | advmod |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 receive | nsubj |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 receive | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 receive | advmod |
| 20 | only | only | ADV | _ | 21 receive | advmod |
| 21 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 enriched | parataxis |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 liberty | nmod:poss |
| 23 | liberty | liberty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 receive | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 bestow | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 bestow | cc |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 bestow | nsubj |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 bestow | aux |
| 28 | also | also | ADV | _ | 29 bestow | advmod |
| 29 | bestow | bestow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 receive | conj |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 fortune | det |
| 31 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 bestow | obj |
| 32 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 33 you | case |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 bestow | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 enriched | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 enriched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enrich | future · passive | the whole town | now | without loss of life | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination | |||
| 2 | not receive | shall | you | your liberty | therefore property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent liberty=Theme | |||
| 3 | bestow | future | I | a fortune | upon you | tree rules |
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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