The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 24
"If that is the case," said the princess, "you must set sail at once and go back for him.
Who acts: that, princess, you · What happens: be, say, set, go back · To what, where: case, sail · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (that, princess, 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 case | mark |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 case | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 case | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 case | det |
| 6 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 case | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 case | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 princess | det |
| 11 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 set | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 set | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 set | nsubj |
| 15 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 set | aux |
| 16 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 17 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 set | obj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 once | case |
| 19 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 16 set | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 go | cc |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 set | conj |
| 22 | back | back | ADV | _ | 21 go | advmod |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 go | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | that | the case | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | set in a quote | must | you | sail | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sail=Theme at once=Destination | ||||
| 4 | go back in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | for captain | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient |
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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