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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 110

"Since I must die," he said, "before I choose the manner of my death, I conjure you on your honour to tell me if you really were in that vase?"

Who acts: Fisherman, you, my, your · What happens: die, say, choose, conjure, tell, be · To what, where: manner, you, honour, Fisherman, vase · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fisherman, you, my, 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

punctmarknsubjauxccomppunctpunctnsubjpunctpunctmarknsubjadvcldetobjcasenmod:possnmodpunctnsubjccompobjcasenmod:possoblmarkadvcliobjmarknsubjadvmodcopcasedetccomppunctpunctroot"PUNCTSinceSCONJIPRONmustAUXdieVERB,PUNCT"PUNCThePRONsaidVERB,PUNCT"PUNCTbeforeSCONJIPRONchooseVERBtheDETmannerNOUNofADPmyPRONdeathNOUN,PUNCTIPRONconjureVERByouPRONonADPyourPRONhonourNOUNtoPARTtellVERBmePRONifSCONJyouPRONreallyADVwereAUXinADPthatDETvaseNOUN?PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1""PUNCT_5 diepunct
2SincesinceSCONJ_5 diemark
3IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs5 diensubj
4mustmustAUXVerbForm=Fin5 dieaux
5diedieVERBVerbForm=Inf9 saidccomp
6,,PUNCT_5 diepunct
7""PUNCT_5 diepunct
8hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 saidnsubj
9saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
10,,PUNCT_22 conjurepunct
11""PUNCT_22 conjurepunct
12beforebeforeSCONJ_14 choosemark
13IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs14 choosensubj
14choosechooseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin22 conjureadvcl
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 mannerdet
16mannermannerNOUNNumber=Sing14 chooseobj
17ofofADP_19 deathcase
18mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs19 deathnmod:poss
19deathdeathNOUNNumber=Sing16 mannernmod
20,,PUNCT_14 choosepunct
21IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs22 conjurensubj
22conjureconjureVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin9 saidccomp
23youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs22 conjureobj
24ononADP_26 honourcase
25youryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs26 honournmod:poss
26honourhonourNOUNNumber=Sing22 conjureobl
27totoPART_28 tellmark
28telltellVERBVerbForm=Inf22 conjureadvcl
29meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs28 telliobj
30ififSCONJ_36 vasemark
31youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs36 vasensubj
32reallyreallyADV_36 vaseadvmod
33werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin36 vasecop
34ininADP_36 vasecase
35thatthatDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem36 vasedet
36vasevaseNOUNNumber=Sing28 tellccomp
37??PUNCT_9 saidpunct
38""PUNCT_9 saidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1die in a quotemustFishermanvn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2say speech: askpastFishermanvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3choose in a quotepresentFishermanthe manner of my deathvn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manner=Theme
4conjure in a quotepresentFishermanyouyour honourvn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Result
5tell speech: assert in a quoteto-infinitiveFisherman not said hereFishermanvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
6is a condition, not said to happen, in a quotepastyouthat vasetree rules
7die in a quotemynom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent
8honour in a quoteyournom honour «state 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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