The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 100

You and your wife and your palace deserve to be burnt to ashes; but this request does not come from you, but from the brother of the African magician whom you destroyed.

Who acts: You, request · What happens: deserve, burnt, not come, destroy · To what, where: African magician

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, request), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 deserve	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 wife	cc
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 wife	nmod:poss
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 You	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 palace	cc
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 palace	nmod:poss
7	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 You	conj
8	deserve	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	11 burnt	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 burnt	aux:pass
11	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 deserve	xcomp
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 ashes	case
13	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 burnt	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 come	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 come	cc
16	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 request	det
17	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 come	nsubj
18	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 come	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 come	advmod
20	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 deserve	parataxis
21	from	from	ADP	_	22 you	case
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 come	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 brother	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 brother	cc
25	from	from	ADP	_	27 brother	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 brother	det
27	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 come	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 magician	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 magician	det
30	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 magician	amod
31	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 brother	nmod
32	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 destroyed	obj
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 destroyed	nsubj
34	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 magician	acl:relcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 deserve	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	deserve	present	You			tree rules
2	burnt	to-infinitive · passive	You not said here		to ashes	tree rules
3	not come	present · do-support	this request		from you; from the brother of the African magician	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from you=Initial_Location from brother=Destination
4	destroy	past	you	the African magician		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=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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