The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 4
But if you will only have the patience to listen to my tale, you shall know who is the real culprit.
Who acts: you, my · What happens: have, listen, know, be, tell · To what, where: patience, real culprit · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 know | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 have | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 have | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 have | aux |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 have | advmod |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 know | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 patience | det |
| 8 | patience | patience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 listen | mark |
| 10 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 patience | acl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 tale | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 tale | nmod:poss |
| 13 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 listen | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 know | nsubj |
| 16 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 know | aux |
| 17 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 culprit | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 culprit | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 culprit | det |
| 21 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 culprit | amod |
| 22 | culprit | culprit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 know | ccomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have a condition, not said to happen | future | you | the patience | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=Patient | ||||
| 2 | listen | to-infinitive | you not said here | the patience not said here | to my tale | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to tale=Theme | |||
| 3 | know | shall | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | the real culprit | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | tell | my | nom tale «communication intransitive»: 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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