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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 56

I shall never allow my wife to leave her rooms on any pretext whatever without my permission, and my visits to her will be marked by all the ceremony calculated to inspire respect.

Who acts: I, wife, ceremony, my · What happens: not allow, leave, mark, calculate, inspire, permit · To what, where: wife, rooms, pretext, visits, ceremony, respect

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 (I, wife, ceremony, 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

nsubjauxadvmodnmod:possobjmarkxcompnmod:possobjcasedetoblapposcasenmod:possnmodpunctccnmod:possnsubj:passmarknmod:possauxaux:passparataxiscasedet:predetdetoblaclmarkxcompobjpunctrootIPRONshallAUXneverADVallowVERBmyPRONwifeNOUNtoPARTleaveVERBherPRONroomsNOUNonADPanyDETpretextNOUNwhateverPRONwithoutADPmyPRONpermissionNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJmyPRONvisitsNOUNtoSCONJherPRONwillAUXbeAUXmarkedVERBbyADPallDETtheDETceremonyNOUNcalculatedVERBtoPARTinspireVERBrespectNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs4 allownsubj
2shallshallAUXVerbForm=Fin4 allowaux
3neverneverADVPronType=Neg4 allowadvmod
4allowallowVERBVerbForm=Infrootroot
5mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs6 wifenmod:poss
6wifewifeNOUNNumber=Sing4 allowobj
7totoPART_8 leavemark
8leaveleaveVERBVerbForm=Inf4 allowxcomp
9herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs10 roomsnmod:poss
10roomsroomNOUNNumber=Plur8 leaveobj
11ononADP_13 pretextcase
12anyanyDETPronType=Ind13 pretextdet
13pretextpretextNOUNNumber=Sing8 leaveobl
14whateverwhateverPRONPronType=Rel13 pretextappos
15withoutwithoutADP_17 permissioncase
16mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs17 permissionnmod:poss
17permissionpermissionNOUNNumber=Sing14 whatevernmod
18,,PUNCT_26 markedpunct
19andandCCONJ_26 markedcc
20mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs21 visitsnmod:poss
21visitsvisitNOUNNumber=Plur26 markednsubj:pass
22totoSCONJ_26 markedmark
23herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs26 markednmod:poss
24willwillAUXVerbForm=Fin26 markedaux
25bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf26 markedaux:pass
26markedmarkVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass4 allowparataxis
27bybyADP_30 ceremonycase
28allallDETPronType=Tot30 ceremonydet:predet
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 ceremonydet
30ceremonyceremonyNOUNNumber=Sing26 markedobl
31calculatedcalculateVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass30 ceremonyacl
32totoPART_33 inspiremark
33inspireinspireVERBVerbForm=Inf31 calculatedxcomp
34respectrespectNOUNNumber=Sing33 inspireobj
35..PUNCT_4 allowpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1not allowshallImy wifevn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer wife=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2leave not said to happento-infinitivemy wife not said herewife's roomsany pretextvn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent room=Theme on pretext=Location
3markfuture · passiveall ceremonymy visitsvn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Destination
4calculateparticipleall ceremony not said heretree rules
5inspireto-infinitiverespectvn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus respect=Experiencer
6permitmynom permission «communication transitive»: poss=agent
7visitmynom visit «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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