The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 38

I promise you that to-morrow twelvemonth, I shall be waiting under these trees to give myself up to you."

Who acts: I · What happens: promise, wait, give up · To what, where: you, morrow twelvemonth, trees, myself

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 (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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 promise	nsubj
2	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 promise	iobj
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 you	nmod:unmarked
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 twelvemonth	case
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 to	punct
7	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 twelvemonth	compound
8	twelvemonth	twelvemonth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 promise	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 waiting	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 waiting	nsubj
11	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 waiting	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 waiting	aux
13	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 promise	advcl
14	under	under	ADP	_	16 trees	case
15	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	16 trees	det
16	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 waiting	obl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 give	mark
18	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 waiting	advcl
19	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 give	iobj
20	up	up	ADP	_	18 give	compound:prt
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 you	case
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 give	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 promise	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 promise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	present	I	you		to morrow twelvemonth goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent you=Theme to twelvemonth=Goal
2	wait	shall · progressive	I		this trees		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under tree=Location
3	give up	to-infinitive	I not said here	myself		to you	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent myself=Theme 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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