The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 75
"If what you tell me, Princess, is indeed the case, I do not despair of finding comfort for you.
Who acts: you, Princess, I, despair · What happens: tell, be, not despair, find · To what, where: me, case, comfort · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Princess, I, despair), 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 | _ | 5 tell | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 tell | mark |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 tell | obj |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 tell | nsubj |
| 5 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 tell | iobj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Princess | punct |
| 8 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 case | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Princess | punct |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 case | cop |
| 11 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 13 case | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 case | det |
| 13 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tell | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 tell | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 despair | nsubj |
| 16 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 despair | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 despair | advmod |
| 18 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tell | ccomp |
| 19 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 20 finding | mark |
| 20 | finding | find | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 despair | acl |
| 21 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 finding | obj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 you | case |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 finding | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present | you | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient what=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | Princess | the case | indeed property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not despair in a quote | present · do-support | I | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | find in a quote | gerund | despair not said here | comfort | for you | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent comfort=Theme for you=Beneficiary |
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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