The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 34
"But," said the genius, "if I grant you the delay you ask, I am afraid that you will not come back."
Who acts: genius, you · What happens: say, grant, ask, be, not come back · To what, where: delay, 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 (genius, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 said | cc |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 But | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 genius | det |
| 7 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 afraid | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 afraid | punct |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 grant | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 grant | nsubj |
| 12 | grant | grant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 afraid | advcl |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 grant | obj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 delay | det |
| 15 | delay | delay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 grant | obj |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 ask | nsubj |
| 17 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 delay | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 grant | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 afraid | nsubj |
| 20 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 afraid | cop |
| 21 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | advcl |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 come | mark |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 come | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 come | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 come | advmod |
| 26 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 afraid | ccomp |
| 27 | back | back | ADV | _ | 26 come | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the genius | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | grant a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | the genius = genius | the delay | you | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent you=Goal delay=Theme | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask in a quote | present | you | the delay not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent delay=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | the genius = genius | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not come back in a quote | future | you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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