The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 74

I refer the matter to an umpire, and shall expect you to submit to his verdict."

Who acts: I, you · What happens: refer, expect, submit · To what, where: matter, umpire, you

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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 refer	nsubj
2	refer	refer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 matter	det
4	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 refer	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 umpire	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 umpire	det
7	umpire	umpire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 refer	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 expect	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 expect	cc
10	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 expect	aux
11	expect	expect	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 refer	parataxis
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 expect	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 submit	mark
14	submit	submit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 expect	xcomp
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 verdict	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 verdict	nmod:poss
17	verdict	verdict	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 submit	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 refer	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 refer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	refer	present	I	the matter	a umpire		vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent matter=Theme to umpire=Recipient
2	expect	shall		you			tree rules
3	submit not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here			to China's verdict	vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to verdict=Theme

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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