The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 21
But I will grant your power and give the promise you ask.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: grant, give, ask · To what, where: power, promise
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 (I, you), 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 | _ | 4 grant | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 grant | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 grant | aux |
| 4 | grant | grant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 power | nmod:poss |
| 6 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grant | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 give | cc |
| 8 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 grant | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 promise | det |
| 10 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 give | obj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 ask | nsubj |
| 12 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 promise | acl:relcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grant | future | I | your power | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent power=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | infinitive | I not said here | the promise | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | present | you | the promise not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent promise=Recipient |
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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