The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 6
Do not therefore hesitate to sell me, and with the money you obtain go and establish yourself in business in some distant town."
Who acts: you · What happens: not hesitate, sell, obtain, go, establish · To what, where: me, yourself, business
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 (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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 hesitate | aux |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 hesitate | advmod |
| 3 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 4 hesitate | advmod |
| 4 | hesitate | hesitate | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 sell | mark |
| 6 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hesitate | xcomp |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 sell | iobj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 obtain | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 obtain | cc |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 money | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 money | det |
| 12 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 obtain | obl |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 obtain | nsubj |
| 14 | obtain | obtain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hesitate | parataxis |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 obtain | xcomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 establish | cc |
| 17 | establish | establish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 go | conj |
| 18 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 establish | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 business | case |
| 20 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 establish | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 town | case |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 town | det |
| 23 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 town | amod |
| 24 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 establish | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hesitate | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 hesitate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hesitate | imperative · do-support | you not said here | therefore property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sell | to-infinitive | you not said here | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 3 | obtain | present | you | with the money | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | infinitive | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | establish | infinitive | you not said here | yourself | business | in some distant town | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient |
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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