The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 73

I am going to tell you my story and that of the hind I have with me, and if you find it more marvellous than that of the merchant whom you are about to kill, I hope that you will do away with a third part of his punishment?"

Who acts: I, that, you, merchant · What happens: go, tell, have, find, be, hope · To what, where: story, 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 (I, that, you, merchant), 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	3 going	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 going	aux
3	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 tell	mark
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 going	xcomp
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 story	nmod:poss
8	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 have	cc
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 have	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 hind	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hind	det
13	hind	hind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 that	nmod
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 have	nsubj
15	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 going	conj
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 me	case
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 have	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 find	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 find	cc
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 find	mark
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 find	nsubj
22	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 going	conj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 find	obj
24	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 marvellous	advmod
25	marvellous	marvellous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 find	xcomp
26	than	than	ADP	_	27 that	case
27	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 marvellous	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 merchant	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 merchant	det
30	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 that	nmod
31	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 kill	obl
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 kill	nsubj
33	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 kill	cop
34	about	about	ADV	_	36 kill	advmod
35	to	to	PART	_	36 kill	mark
36	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 merchant	acl:relcl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 hope	punct
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 hope	nsubj
39	hope	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 going	parataxis
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 do	mark
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	43 do	nsubj
42	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 do	aux
43	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 hope	ccomp
44	away	away	ADV	_	43 do	advmod
45	with	with	ADP	_	48 part	case
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 part	det
47	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	48 part	amod
48	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 do	obl
49	of	of	ADP	_	51 punishment	case
50	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 punishment	nmod:poss
51	punishment	punishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 part	nmod
52	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 going	punct
53	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	present · progressive	I				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	I not said here	my story	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient story=Topic
3	have	present	that			with me	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	find a condition, not said to happen	present	you	story		marvellous property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
5	is	present	you			the merchant obl; about, kill property	tree rules
6	hope	present	I				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	do away	future	you			with a third part of merchant's punishment; away property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	punish		merchant				nom punishment «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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