The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 99
If you wish me to remain in your service, furnish me with the necessary funds, else I must withdraw."
Who acts: you, I, your · What happens: wish, remain, furnish, withdraw, service · To what, where: me, service · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, I, your), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 wish | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 wish | nsubj |
| 3 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 furnish | advcl |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 wish | iobj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 remain | mark |
| 6 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wish | ccomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 service | case |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 service | nmod:poss |
| 9 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 remain | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
| 11 | furnish | furnish | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 furnish | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 funds | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 funds | det |
| 15 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 funds | amod |
| 16 | funds | fund | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 furnish | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 withdraw | punct |
| 18 | else | else | ADV | _ | 21 withdraw | advmod |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 withdraw | nsubj |
| 20 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 withdraw | aux |
| 21 | withdraw | withdraw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 furnish | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 withdraw | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 withdraw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish a condition, not said to happen | present | you | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | remain not said to happen | to-infinitive | your service | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in service=Location | |||||
| 3 | furnish | imperative | you not said here | me | with the necessary funds | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Recipient with fund=Theme | |||
| 4 | withdraw | must | I | else property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | service | your | nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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