The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 27

"Then, if you will listen to me," said the Caliph, "you will immediately return to Balsora.

Who acts: you, Caliph · What happens: listen, say, return · To what, where: Caliph, Balsora · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Caliph), 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	_	7 listen	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 listen	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Then	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 listen	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 listen	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 listen	aux
7	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 me	case
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 listen	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 listen	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 listen	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Caliph	det
14	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 return	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 return	punct
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 return	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 return	aux
19	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	20 return	advmod
20	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 Balsora	case
22	Balsora	Balsora	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 return	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	listen a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future	you	the Caliph = caliph	then		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to i=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the Caliph				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	return in a quote	future	you	Balsora		immediately property	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to balsora=Result

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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