The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 75

But how would it be if he were first to marry?

Who acts: doubtless · What happens: be, marry

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 (doubtless), 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	_	11 marry	cc
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 marry	advmod
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 marry	aux
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 first	nsubj
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 first	cop
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 first	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 first	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 first	cop
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 marry	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 marry	mark
11	marry	marry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 marry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	infinitive	doubtless					first property	tree rules
2	marry	would							vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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