The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 17
Let what will happen I take it on my own head, and will never reproach you."
Who acts: you, I · What happens: let, happen, take, not reproach · To what, where: recollection, own head, you
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 happen | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 happen | aux |
| 4 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 take | nsubj |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 happen | ccomp |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 take | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 head | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 head | nmod:poss |
| 10 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 head | amod |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 reproach | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 reproach | cc |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 reproach | aux |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 reproach | advmod |
| 16 | reproach | reproach | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | conj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 reproach | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | happen | future | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | take | present | I | recollection | my own head | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on head=Destination | |||
| 4 | not reproach | future | you not said here | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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