The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 64

The story is so sad and strange that I am sure your Majesty will be touched by it if you will permit me to tell it you."

Who acts: story, I, you · What happens: be, touch, permit, tell · To what, where: Majesty, me, story, you · 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 (story, I, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 story	det
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sad	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sad	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 sad	advmod
5	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 strange	cc
7	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sad	conj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 sure	mark
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 sure	nsubj
10	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 sure	cop
11	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sad	parataxis
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 Majesty	nmod:poss
13	Majesty	majesty	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 touched	nsubj:pass
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 touched	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 touched	aux:pass
16	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 sure	ccomp
17	by	by	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 touched	obl
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 permit	mark
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 permit	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 permit	aux
22	permit	permit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 touched	advcl
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 permit	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 tell	mark
25	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 permit	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 tell	obj
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 tell	iobj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sad	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 sad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	the story			sad property	tree rules
2	be		the story not said here				tree rules
3	is	present	I			sure property	tree rules
4	touch	future · passive		your Majesty		by story	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.instrument»: subject=Experiencer by it=Theme
5	permit a condition, not said to happen	future	you	me			vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
6	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	you not said here	story	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient it=Topic

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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