The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 8

I would die rather than part from you whom I love better than my life."

Who acts: I · What happens: die, love

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), 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 die	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 die	aux
3	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	6 part	cc
5	than	than	ADP	_	4 rather	fixed
6	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 die	conj
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 you	case
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 die	obl
9	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 love	obj
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 love	nsubj
11	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 die	conj
12	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 love	xcomp
13	than	than	ADP	_	15 life	case
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 life	nmod:poss
15	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 better	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 die	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 die	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	would	I					from you	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient from you=Causer
2	love	present	I					good property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus

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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