The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 42

But before I allow you all four to return to your own homes, and have the corpse of the hunchback properly buried, I should like to see this barber who has earned your pardon.

Who acts: I, you, barber, your · What happens: allow, return, have, bury, like, see · To what, where: four, you, corpse, hunchback, barber, pardon

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 (I, you, barber, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	16 have	cc
2	before	before	SCONJ	_	4 allow	mark
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 allow	nsubj
4	allow	allow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 have	advcl
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 allow	iobj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 four	det
7	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 allow	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 return	mark
9	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 allow	advcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 homes	case
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 homes	nmod:poss
12	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 homes	amod
13	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 return	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 have	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 have	cc
16	have	have	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 corpse	det
18	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 have	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 hunchback	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 hunchback	det
21	hunchback	hunchback	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 corpse	nmod
22	properly	properly	ADV	_	23 buried	advmod
23	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 hunchback	acl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 like	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 like	nsubj
26	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 like	aux
27	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 have	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 see	mark
29	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 like	xcomp
30	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 barber	det
31	barber	barber	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 see	obj
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 earned	nsubj
33	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 earned	aux
34	earned	earn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 barber	acl:relcl
35	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 pardon	nmod:poss
36	pardon	pardon	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 earned	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	allow	present	I	all four	you		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary
2	return	to-infinitive	I not said here			to your own homes result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to home=Result
3	have	imperative	you not said here	the corpse of the hunchback			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corpse=Patient
4	bury	participle		the hunchback not said here		properly property	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	like	should	I				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	this barber			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer barber=Stimulus
7	earn	present · perfect	this barber	your pardon			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pardon=Theme
8	pardon		your				nom pardon «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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