The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 89

"Light them yourself," answered the old man; "you are younger than I, but let five or six be enough."

Who acts: you, old man, five · What happens: light, answer, be, let · To what, where: cups · Speech: someone speaks here

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, old man, five), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Light	punct
2	Light	light	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Light	obj
4	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 Light	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Light	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Light	punct
7	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Light	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 answered	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 younger	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 younger	punct
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 younger	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 younger	cop
15	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 Light	parataxis
16	than	than	ADP	_	17 I	case
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 younger	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 let	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 let	cc
20	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Light	parataxis
21	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 enough	nsubj
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 six	cc
23	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 five	conj
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 enough	cop
25	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 let	parataxis
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Light	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Light	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	light in a quote	imperative	you not said here	cups = cup		tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past	the old man			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	you		than cups = cup; young property	tree rules
4	let in a quote	infinitive				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
5	is in a quote	infinitive	five		enough property	tree rules

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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