The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 88

Remember riches sometimes have wings if we keep them for ourselves, and the poor are at our gates expressly that we may help them."

Who acts: you, riches, we, poor gates · What happens: remember, have, keep, be, help · To what, where: wings, poor gates · 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 (you, riches, we, poor gates), 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	Remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
3	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 have	advmod
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Remember	ccomp
5	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 keep	mark
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 keep	nsubj
8	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 have	advcl
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 keep	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 ourselves	case
11	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 keep	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 gates	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 gates	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 poor	det
15	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 gates	amod
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 gates	cop
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 gates	case
18	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 gates	nmod:poss
19	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 help	nsubj
20	expressly	expressly	ADV	_	24 help	advmod
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 help	mark
22	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 help	nsubj
23	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 help	aux
24	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Remember	ccomp
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 help	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Remember	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Remember	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	remember	imperative	you not said here				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	have	present	riches	wings		sometimes property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient
3	keep a condition, not said to happen	present	we	wings = wing		for ourselves	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	is	present			our poor gates		tree rules
5	help	may	our poor gates	wings = wing		expressly property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary

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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