The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 46

I think you will see that this is fair, for if you present me with forty camels, I on my side will give you the means of buying a thousand more."

Who acts: I, you, this, the · What happens: think, see, be, present, give, mean · To what, where: me, you, thousand more · Speech: someone speaks here

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, you, this, the), 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 think	nsubj
2	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 see	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 see	aux
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 think	ccomp
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 fair	mark
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 fair	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 fair	cop
9	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 see	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 present	punct
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 present	mark
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 present	mark
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 present	nsubj
14	present	present	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 think	parataxis
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 present	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 camels	case
17	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 camels	nummod
18	camels	camel	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 present	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 give	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 give	reparandum
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 side	case
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 side	nmod:poss
23	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 I	nmod
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 give	aux
25	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 think	parataxis
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 give	iobj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 means	nsubj
28	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 give	parataxis
29	of	of	SCONJ	_	30 buying	mark
30	buying	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 means	xcomp
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 thousand	det
32	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 more	nummod
33	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	30 buying	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 think	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	I				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	see	future	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	present	this			fair property	tree rules
4	present a condition, not said to happen	present	you		me	with forty camels	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Recipient with camel=Theme
5	give	future			you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
6	mean	present	the				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	buy not said to happen	gerund	the not said here	thousand more			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme

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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