The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 39
It is now for you to say if we deserve mercy or punishment; life or death?"
Who acts: It, we · What happens: be, deserve · To what, where: mercy
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, we), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 say | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 say | cop |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 say | advmod |
| 4 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 7 say | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 say | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 say | mark |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 deserve | mark |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 deserve | nsubj |
| 10 | deserve | deserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 say | ccomp |
| 11 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 deserve | obj |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 punishment | cc |
| 13 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mercy | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 life | punct |
| 15 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 say | parataxis |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 death | cc |
| 17 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 life | conj |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 say | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | now | say property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | deserve a condition, not said to happen | present | we | mercy or punishment | tree rules |
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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