The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 2

"Madam," said the prince, "I have no wish to survive the king, my father, but should I do so I will try to reign in such a manner as may be considered worthy of my predecessors."

Who acts: Madam, wish · What happens: say, have, survive, try, reign, consider · To what, where: prince, wish, king, manner · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Madam, wish), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Madam	punct
2	Madam	madam	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Madam	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Madam	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 prince	det
7	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 have	nsubj
11	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 wish	det
13	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 have	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 survive	mark
15	survive	survive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 have	xcomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 king	det
17	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 survive	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 father	punct
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 father	nmod:poss
20	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 king	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 try	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 try	cc
23	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 try	aux
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 try	nsubj
25	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 try	aux
26	so	so	ADV	_	29 try	advmod
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 try	nsubj
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 try	aux
29	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	parataxis
30	to	to	PART	_	31 reign	mark
31	reign	reign	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 try	xcomp
32	in	in	ADP	_	35 manner	case
33	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	35 manner	det:predet
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 manner	det
35	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 reign	obl
36	as	as	SCONJ	_	39 considered	mark
37	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 considered	aux
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 considered	aux:pass
39	considered	consider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 reign	advcl
40	worthy	worthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 considered	xcomp
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 predecessors	case
42	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 predecessors	nmod:poss
43	predecessors	predecessor	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 worthy	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Madam	the prince			tree rules
2	have in a quote	present	Madam	no wish			tree rules
3	survive in a quote	to-infinitive	no wish not said here	the king and my father			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme king=Circumstance
4	try in a quote	should · future · do-support	Madam				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	reign not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Madam not said here		such manner		tree rules
6	consider in a quote	may · passive	Madam not said here			worthy property	vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»

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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