The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 132
"If you are clever enough to do this," he said, "I promise to make you and your descendants rich for ever."
Who acts: you, king · What happens: be, do, say, promise, make · To what, where: this, you · 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 (you, king), 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 | _ | 5 clever | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 clever | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 clever | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 clever | cop |
| 5 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 said | ccomp |
| 6 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 5 clever | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 do | mark |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 clever | xcomp |
| 9 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 do | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 clever | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 clever | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 promise | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 promise | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 promise | nsubj |
| 17 | promise | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 make | mark |
| 19 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 promise | xcomp |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 make | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 descendants | cc |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 descendants | nmod:poss |
| 23 | descendants | descendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 you | conj |
| 24 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 make | xcomp |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 ever | case |
| 26 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 24 rich | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | clever, enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | promise speech: promise in a quote | present | king | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | make not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | king not said here | you | rich property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product |
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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