The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 2

It would but renew my trouble to tell of all the misfortunes that have befallen me in a year, and have brought me to this state."

Who acts: It, misfortunes, my · What happens: renew, tell, befall, bring, trouble · To what, where: trouble, me, state · 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 (It, misfortunes, my), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 renew	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 renew	aux
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	4 renew	cc
4	renew	renew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 trouble	nmod:poss
6	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 renew	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 tell	mark
8	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 trouble	acl
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 misfortunes	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 misfortunes	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 misfortunes	det
12	misfortunes	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 tell	obl
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 befallen	nsubj
14	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 befallen	aux
15	befallen	befall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 misfortunes	acl:relcl
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 befallen	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 year	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 year	det
19	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 befallen	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 brought	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 brought	cc
22	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 brought	aux
23	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 renew	conj
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 brought	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 state	case
26	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 state	det
27	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 brought	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 renew	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 renew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	renew	would	It	my trouble				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent trouble=Patient
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive		my trouble not said here			of all misfortunes	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	befall	present · perfect	all misfortunes	me		year		tree rules
4	bring	present · perfect		me	this state			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to state=Destination
5	trouble		my					nom trouble «cognition 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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