The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 21
I should esteem myself very happy if he would give me to his son."
Who acts: I, vizir · What happens: esteem, give · To what, where: myself, me
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, vizir), 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 | 3 esteem | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 esteem | aux |
| 3 | esteem | esteem | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 esteem | obj |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 happy | advmod |
| 6 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 esteem | xcomp |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 give | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 give | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 give | aux |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 happy | advcl |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 give | iobj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 son | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 son | nmod:poss |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 esteem | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 esteem | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | esteem | should | I | myself | happy property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer myself=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | give a condition, not said to happen | would | vizir | me | to vizir's son | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Theme to son=Recipient |
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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