The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 6

Of what use would my alms be if I treated you so ill?"

Who acts: alms · What happens: be

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 (alms), 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	Of	of	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	use	we	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 would	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 alms	nmod:poss
6	alms	alm	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 treated	nsubj
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 treated	cop
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 treated	mark
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 treated	nsubj
10	treated	treat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 treated	obj
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 ill	advmod
13	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 treated	xcomp
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 ill	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive	my alms					ill, treat property	tree rules

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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