The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 32

I will interest him at the same time in your behalf, and this will be worth much more to you than what extra money you might obtain from the merchants." "

Who acts: this, extra money · What happens: be, obtain · To what, where: you, merchants

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 (this, extra money), 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 interest	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 interest	aux
3	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 interest	nmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 time	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 time	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 time	amod
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 interest	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 behalf	case
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 behalf	nmod:poss
11	behalf	behalf	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 time	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 worth	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 worth	cc
14	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 worth	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 worth	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 worth	cop
17	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 interest	parataxis
18	much	much	ADV	_	19 more	advmod
19	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 worth	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 you	case
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 worth	obl
22	than	than	SCONJ	_	28 obtain	mark
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 obtain	obj
24	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 money	amod
25	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 obtain	nsubj
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 obtain	nsubj
27	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 obtain	aux
28	obtain	obtain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 worth	csubj
29	from	from	ADP	_	31 merchants	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 merchants	det
31	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 obtain	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 worth	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 worth	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 interest	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	future	this		you			worth property	tree rules
2	obtain	might	extra money			the merchants			vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent what=Theme from merchant=Source

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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