The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 39

I tell thee I will take the slave, and as to the purse, if it contains silver thou mayst keep one piece, if gold then I will take all and give thee what copper pieces I have in my purse."

Who acts: I, slave, silver, gold · What happens: tell, take, contain, keep, give, piece · To what, where: thee, slave, one piece, all, copper pieces, purse · 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 (I, slave, silver, gold), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 tell	nsubj
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	2 tell	iobj
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 take	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 take	aux
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tell	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 slave	det
8	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 purse	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 purse	cc
11	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	14 purse	case
12	to	to	ADP	_	11 as	fixed
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 purse	det
14	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tell	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 contains	punct
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 contains	mark
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 contains	nsubj
18	contains	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 tell	parataxis
19	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 keep	nsubj
20	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	22 keep	nsubj
21	mayst	may	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	22 keep	aux
22	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 contains	parataxis
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 piece	nummod
24	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 keep	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 take	punct
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 take	mark
27	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 take	nsubj
28	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 take	advmod
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 take	nsubj
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 take	aux
31	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 keep	conj
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 take	obj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 give	cc
34	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 take	conj
35	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	34 give	iobj
36	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	38 pieces	nsubj
37	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 pieces	compound
38	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 give	obj
39	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 have	nsubj
40	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 pieces	acl:relcl
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 purse	case
42	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 purse	nmod:poss
43	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 have	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tell	punct
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	I		thee			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient clause=Topic
2	take	future	I	the slave				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slave=Theme
3	contain a condition, not said to happen	present	slave					vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
4	keep	may	silver	one piece				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme
5	take a condition, not said to happen	future	gold	all			then	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme
6	give	infinitive	gold not said here		thee			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme
7	piece							tree rules
8	have	present	I	copper pieces not said here		my purse		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Patient

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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