The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 81

If I were the grand-vizir I would order you a hundred blows from a bullock whip, and would have you led round the town accompanied by a herald who should proclaim your crimes."

Who acts: I, you, herald, your · What happens: be, order, have, lead, accompany, proclaim · To what, where: grand vizir, hundred blows, you, bullock whip, town, crimes

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, you, herald, your), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	7 vizir	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 vizir	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 vizir	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 vizir	det
5	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 vizir	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 grand	punct
7	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 order	advcl
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 order	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 order	aux
10	order	order	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 order	obj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 hundred	det
13	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 blows	nummod
14	blows	blow	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 order	obj
15	from	from	ADP	_	18 whip	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 whip	det
17	bullock	bullock	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 whip	compound
18	whip	whip	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 blows	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 have	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 have	cc
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 have	aux
22	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 order	conj
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 have	obj
24	led	lead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 have	xcomp
25	round	round	ADP	_	27 town	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 town	det
27	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 led	obl
28	accompanied	accompany	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 town	acl
29	by	by	ADP	_	31 herald	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 herald	det
31	herald	herald	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 accompanied	obl
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 proclaim	nsubj
33	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 proclaim	aux
34	proclaim	proclaim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 herald	acl:relcl
35	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 crimes	nmod:poss
36	crimes	crime	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 proclaim	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 order	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 order	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a a condition, not said to happen	past	I	the grand vizir				tree rules
2	order	would	I	hundred blows	you	a bullock whip		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary blow=Theme
3	have	would	I not said here	you				tree rules
4	lead	participle	you not said here			the town		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent round town=Destination
5	accompany	participle		the town not said here			by a herald	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by herald=Destination
6	proclaim	should	a herald	your crimes				vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crime=Theme
7	incriminate		your					nom crime «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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