The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 26

But, good brother, you, who are so kind and charitable, and know the secrets of such vast learning, have you nothing that will give me back my sight?"

Who acts: good brother, you, my · What happens: be, know, have, give back, sight · To what, where: secrets, nothing, sight, me

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 (good brother, you, my), 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 kind	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 brother	punct
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 brother	amod
4	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 kind	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 you	punct
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 brother	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 kind	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 kind	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 kind	cop
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 kind	advmod
11	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 charitable	cc
13	charitable	charitable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 kind	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 know	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 know	cc
16	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 kind	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 secrets	det
18	secrets	secret	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 know	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 learning	case
20	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 learning	amod
21	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 learning	amod
22	learning	learning	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 secrets	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 have	punct
24	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 know	parataxis
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 have	nsubj
26	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	24 have	obj
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 give	nsubj
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 give	aux
29	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 nothing	acl:relcl
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 give	iobj
31	back	back	ADP	_	29 give	compound:prt
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 sight	nmod:poss
33	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 give	obj
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 kind	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 kind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	good brother			kind property	tree rules
2	be		good brother not said here				tree rules
3	know	infinitive		the secrets of such vast learning			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer secret=Stimulus
4	have	present	you	nothing			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
5	give back	future		my sight	me		vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient sight=Theme
6	sight		my				nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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