The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 10
Your Majesty will not overpay him if you give him a thousand pieces of silver."
Who acts: Majesty, you · What happens: not overpay, give · To what, where: captain, thousand pieces
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Majesty, 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 2 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 overpay | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 overpay | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 overpay | advmod |
| 5 | overpay | overpay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 overpay | obj |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 give | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 give | nsubj |
| 9 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 overpay | advcl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 give | iobj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 thousand | det |
| 12 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 pieces | nummod |
| 13 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 give | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 silver | case |
| 15 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pieces | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 overpay | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 overpay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not overpay | future | Your Majesty | captain | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give a condition, not said to happen | present | you | thousand pieces of silver | captain | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient piece=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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