The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 52

I can but assure you that I will do all in my power to prove myself worthy of it."

Who acts: I · What happens: assure, do, prove · To what, where: you, all, power, myself

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 (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 assure	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 assure	aux
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	4 assure	cc
4	assure	assure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 assure	iobj
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 do	mark
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 do	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 do	aux
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 assure	ccomp
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 do	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 power	case
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 power	nmod:poss
13	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 all	nmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 prove	mark
15	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 do	advcl
16	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 prove	obj
17	worthy	worthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 prove	xcomp
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 worthy	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 assure	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 assure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	assure	can	I		you			vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	do	future	I	all		my power		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality
3	prove	to-infinitive	I not said here	myself			worthy property	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=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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