The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 46

Should the vizir refuse my proposal, which after all is hardly to be expected, I will seize him by the beard and drag him to my house."

Who acts: vizir, I, my · What happens: refuse, be, seize, drag, propose · To what, where: proposal, vizir, house

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 (vizir, I, 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	Should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 refuse	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 vizir	det
3	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 refuse	nsubj
4	refuse	refuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 proposal	nmod:poss
6	proposal	proposal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 refuse	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 expected	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 expected	nsubj:pass
9	after	after	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 which	nmod
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 expected	cop
12	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	15 expected	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	15 expected	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 expected	aux:pass
15	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 proposal	acl:relcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 seize	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 seize	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 seize	aux
19	seize	seize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 refuse	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 seize	obj
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 beard	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 beard	det
23	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 seize	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 drag	cc
25	drag	drag	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 seize	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 drag	obj
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 house	case
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 house	nmod:poss
29	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 drag	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 refuse	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 refuse	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	refuse	should	the vizir	my proposal			vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proposal=Theme
2	is	present · passive	the vizir not said here	my proposal		expect, hardly property	tree rules
3	seize	future	I	vizir		by the beard	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	drag	infinitive	I not said here	vizir	my house		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to house=Destination
5	propose		my				nom proposal «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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