The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 96

It is bad enough for me to have slain a Mussulman without having it on my conscience that a Christian who is guiltless should suffer through my fault."

Who acts: chief, Christian, my · What happens: be, slay, have, suffer, fault · To what, where: me, chief, conscience, fault

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chief, Christian, my), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bad	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bad	cop
3	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	enough	enough	ADV	_	3 bad	advmod
5	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 slain	mark
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 slain	nsubj:pass
7	to	to	PART	_	9 slain	mark
8	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 slain	aux
9	slain	slay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 bad	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 Mussulman	det
11	Mussulman	mussulman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 slain	obj
12	without	without	SCONJ	_	13 having	mark
13	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 slain	advcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 having	obj
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 conscience	case
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 conscience	nmod:poss
17	conscience	conscience	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 having	obl
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 suffer	mark
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 Christian	det
20	Christian	Christian	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 suffer	nsubj
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 guiltless	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 guiltless	cop
23	guiltless	guiltless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Christian	acl:relcl
24	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 suffer	aux
25	suffer	suffer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 conscience	acl
26	through	through	ADP	_	28 fault	case
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 fault	nmod:poss
28	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 suffer	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bad	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 bad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	chief			bad, enough property	tree rules
2	slay	to-infinitive · perfect · passive		me			tree rules
3	have	gerund		chief	my conscience		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	is	present	a Christian			guiltless property	tree rules
5	suffer	should	a Christian	my conscience not said here	my fault		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer conscience=Stimulus
6	fault		my				nom fault «act transitive»: poss=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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