The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 24

When I know the reason I shall be able to judge whether you can be permitted to continue to practise it, for I cannot help thinking that it sets a very bad example to others.

Who acts: I, reason · What happens: know, be, judge, permit, continue, practise · To what, where: reason, you, bad example

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, reason), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 know	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 know	nsubj
3	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 able	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 reason	det
5	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 know	obj
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 able	nsubj
7	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 able	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 able	cop
9	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 judge	mark
11	judge	judge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 able	xcomp
12	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	16 permitted	mark
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 permitted	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 permitted	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 permitted	aux:pass
16	permitted	permit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 judge	ccomp
17	to	to	PART	_	18 continue	mark
18	continue	continue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 permitted	xcomp
19	to	to	PART	_	20 practise	mark
20	practise	practise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 continue	xcomp
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 practise	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 help	punct
23	for	for	SCONJ	_	27 help	mark
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 help	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 help	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 help	advmod
27	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 practise	conj
28	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 help	xcomp
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 sets	mark
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 sets	nsubj
31	sets	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 thinking	advcl
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 example	det
33	very	very	ADV	_	34 bad	advmod
34	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 example	amod
35	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sets	obj
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 others	case
37	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 sets	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 able	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	present	I	the reason		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer reason=Stimulus
2	is	shall	I		able property	tree rules
3	judge	to-infinitive	I not said here			vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	permit	can · passive		you		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
5	continue not said to happen	to-infinitive				vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	practise	to-infinitive		reason		tree rules
7	not help	can	I			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
8	think speech: other not said to happen	gerund	I not said here			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	set	present	reason	a bad example	to others	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient example=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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