The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 55
Should she send one to me I shall refuse it and dismiss the bearer.
Who acts: wife, I · What happens: send, refuse, dismiss · To what, where: one, me, world, bearer
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 (wife, 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 | Should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 send | aux |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 send | nsubj |
| 3 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 send | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 me | case |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 one | nmod |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 refuse | nsubj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 refuse | aux |
| 9 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 send | parataxis |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 refuse | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 dismiss | cc |
| 12 | dismiss | dismiss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 refuse | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bearer | det |
| 14 | bearer | bearer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dismiss | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | should | wife | one | me | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent one=Theme to i=Destination | |||
| 2 | refuse | shall | I | world | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | dismiss | infinitive | I not said here | the bearer | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bearer=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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