The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 21
When I present her to Saouy as if with your consent you must step in, and with blows begin to lead her away."
Who acts: I, you, blows, your · What happens: present, step in, begin, lead away, consent · To what, where: Hagi, Saouy
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, blows, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 present | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 present | nsubj |
| 3 | present | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 step | advcl |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 present | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Saouy | case |
| 6 | Saouy | Saouy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 present | obl |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 step | mark |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 step | mark |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 consent | case |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 consent | nmod:poss |
| 11 | consent | consent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 step | obl |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 step | nsubj |
| 13 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 step | aux |
| 14 | step | step | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | in | in | ADV | _ | 14 step | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 begin | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 begin | cc |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 blows | case |
| 19 | blows | blow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 begin | nsubj |
| 20 | begin | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 step | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 lead | mark |
| 22 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 begin | xcomp |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 lead | obj |
| 24 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 lead | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 step | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 step | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | present | present | I | Hagi | Saouy | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Theme to saouy=Recipient | |||
| 2 | step in | must | you | with your consent | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | begin | present | blows | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | lead away | to-infinitive | blows not said here | Hagi | away property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 5 | consent | your | nom consent «communication 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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