The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 1

"If only you had arrived a few days sooner," he said, "you might have embarked at once.

Who acts: you, he · What happens: arrive, say, embark · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, he), 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	_	6 arrived	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 arrived	mark
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 arrived	advmod
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 arrived	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 arrived	aux
6	arrived	arrive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 said	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 days	det
8	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 days	amod
9	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sooner	obl:unmarked
10	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 arrived	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sooner	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 arrived	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 embarked	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 embarked	punct
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 embarked	nsubj
18	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 embarked	aux
19	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 embarked	aux
20	embarked	embark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 said	ccomp
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 once	case
22	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	20 embarked	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	arrive a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past · perfect	you	soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	he		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	embark in a quote	might · perfect	you		tree rules

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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