The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 84

But, Commander of the Faithful, there is a proverb that says, "the more one has, the more one wants."

Who acts: Commander, proverb, more one · What happens: be, say, have, want · To what, where: proverb · 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 (Commander, proverb, more one), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 proverb	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Commander	punct
3	Commander	Commander	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 proverb	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Faithful	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Faithful	det
6	Faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Commander	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 is	punct
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 is	expl
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 proverb	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 proverb	det
11	proverb	proverb	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 says	nsubj
13	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 proverb	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 has	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 has	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 one	det
17	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 one	amod
18	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 has	nsubj
19	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 says	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 wants	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 one	det
22	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 one	amod
23	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 wants	nsubj
24	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 has	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 proverb	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 proverb	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	Commander of the Faithful	a proverb	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	a proverb		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have in a quote	present	the more one		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	want in a quote	present	the more one		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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