The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 20

"The rest is still more wonderful," replied Scheherazade, "and you would say so, if the sultan would allow me to live another day, and would give me leave to tell it to you the next night."

Who acts: rest, Scheherazade, you, sultan · What happens: be, reply, say, allow, live, give · To what, where: Scheherazade, Sultan, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rest, Scheherazade, you, sultan), 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	_	7 wonderful	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rest	det
3	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wonderful	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 wonderful	cop
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 more	advmod
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 wonderful	advmod
7	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 replied	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wonderful	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 wonderful	punct
10	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Scheherazade	Scheherazade	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 replied	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Scheherazade	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 Scheherazade	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 say	cc
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 say	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 say	aux
17	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 replied	conj
18	so	so	ADV	_	17 say	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 allow	punct
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 allow	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sultan	det
22	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 allow	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 allow	aux
24	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 say	conj
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 allow	iobj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 live	mark
27	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 allow	xcomp
28	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	29 day	det
29	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 live	obl:unmarked
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 give	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 give	cc
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 give	aux
33	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	17 say	conj
34	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 give	iobj
35	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 give	xcomp
36	to	to	PART	_	37 tell	mark
37	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 leave	xcomp
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 tell	obj
39	to	to	ADP	_	40 you	case
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 tell	obl
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 night	det
42	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 night	amod
43	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 tell	obl:unmarked
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 replied	punct
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	the rest				wonderful property	tree rules
2	reply speech: assert	past	Scheherazade					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	say speech: assert in a quote	would	you					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	allow a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	would	the sultan		Scheherazade			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer i=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
5	live not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the sultan not said here			day		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	give in a quote	would	you not said here		Scheherazade			tree rules
7	leave in a quote	infinitive	you not said here					tree rules
8	tell speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	Sultan	you	night		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to you=Recipient

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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