The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 61
If you would do us the honour to be present, I am sure you would enjoy yourself.'
Who acts: you, I · What happens: do, be, enjoy · To what, where: honour, us, yourself
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 do | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 sure | advcl |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 do | iobj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 honour | det |
| 7 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 do | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 present | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 present | cop |
| 10 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 honour | acl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 sure | nsubj |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 sure | cop |
| 14 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 enjoy | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 enjoy | aux |
| 17 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 sure | ccomp |
| 18 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 enjoy | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 sure | punct |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do a condition, not said to happen | would | you | the honour | us | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | you not said here | the honour not said here | present property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | present | I | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | enjoy | would | you | yourself | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer yourself=Stimulus |
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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