The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 32
"If you really can cure, it is immaterial when you do it.
Who acts: you, newcomer · What happens: cure, be, do · To what, where: newcomer
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, newcomer), 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 | _ | 10 immaterial | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 cure | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 cure | nsubj |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 cure | advmod |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 cure | aux |
| 6 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 immaterial | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 cure | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 immaterial | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 immaterial | cop |
| 10 | immaterial | immaterial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 do | advmod |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 do | nsubj |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 immaterial | advcl |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 do | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 immaterial | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cure a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | can | you | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | newcomer | immaterial property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | present | you | newcomer | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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