The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 95

But then, supposing he had, I should have got possession of it by force, so great was the madness that had laid hold upon me.

Who acts: man, I, supposing · What happens: suppose, have, get, be, lay, hold · To what, where: possession, madness · 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 (man, I, supposing), 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	_	4 supposing	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 supposing	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 supposing	punct
4	supposing	suppose	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 madness	csubj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 supposing	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 got	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 got	nsubj
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 got	aux
10	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 got	aux
11	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 had	parataxis
12	possession	possession	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 got	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 possession	nmod
15	by	by	ADP	_	16 force	case
16	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 got	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 great	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 great	advmod
19	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 supposing	conj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 madness	cop
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 madness	det
22	madness	madness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 laid	nsubj:pass
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 laid	aux
25	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 madness	acl:relcl
26	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 laid	xcomp
27	upon	upon	ADP	_	28 me	case
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 hold	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 madness	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	suppose	gerund			then		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	have	past	man				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	get	should · perfect	I	possession of possession		by force	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer possession=Stimulus
4	is a	past	supposing	the madness			tree rules
5	lay	past · perfect · passive		the madness			tree rules
6	hold	infinitive				upon me	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon i=Location
7	possess			possession			nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient

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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