The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 41

"Take this to your mistress, my friend, and if on reading it and seeing its contents she is not instantly cured, you may call me an impudent impostor."

Who acts: you · What happens: take, read, see, not cure, call · To what, where: this, mistress, friend, contents, Having · Speech: someone speaks here

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), 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 Take	punct
2	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 Take	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 mistress	case
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mistress	nmod:poss
6	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Take	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 friend	punct
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 friend	nmod:poss
9	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mistress	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 call	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 call	cc
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 reading	mark
13	on	on	SCONJ	_	14 reading	mark
14	reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 call	advcl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 reading	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 seeing	cc
17	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 reading	conj
18	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 contents	nmod:poss
19	contents	contents	NOUN	Number=Ptan	17 seeing	obj
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 cured	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 cured	aux:pass
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 cured	advmod
23	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	24 cured	advmod
24	cured	cure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 reading	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 reading	punct
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 call	nsubj
27	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 call	aux
28	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Take	conj
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 call	obj
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 impostor	det
31	impudent	impudent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 impostor	amod
32	impostor	impostor	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 call	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	take in a quote	imperative	you not said here	this	your mistress		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent this=Theme to mistress=Destination
2	read a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	gerund	you not said here	friend			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
3	see in a quote	gerund	you not said here	friend's contents			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer contents=Stimulus
4	not cure in a quote	present · passive		mistress		instantly property	vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Source
5	call in a quote	may	you		Having		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=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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