The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 4

"If you insist upon it I will do it," answered the dervish, "but you must remember what I told you just now--that if it touches your right eye you will become blind on the spot."

Who acts: you, dervish, eye · What happens: insist, do, answer, remember, tell, touch · To what, where: eye, you, right eye · Speech: someone speaks here

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, dervish, eye), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 do	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 insist	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 insist	nsubj
4	insist	insist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 do	advcl
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 insist	obl
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 do	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 do	aux
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 answered	parataxis
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 do	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 do	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 do	punct
13	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 dervish	det
15	dervish	dervish	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 answered	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 dervish	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 dervish	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 remember	cc
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 remember	nsubj
20	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 remember	aux
21	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 answered	conj
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 remember	obj
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 told	nsubj
24	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 what	acl:relcl
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 told	iobj
26	just	just	ADV	_	27 now	advmod
27	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 told	advmod
28	--	--	PUNCT	_	38 become	punct
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 become	mark
30	if	if	SCONJ	_	32 touches	mark
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 touches	nsubj
32	touches	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 become	advcl
33	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 eye	nmod:poss
34	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 eye	amod
35	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 touches	obj
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 become	nsubj
37	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 become	aux
38	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 remember	parataxis
39	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 become	xcomp
40	on	on	ADP	_	42 spot	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 spot	det
42	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 blind	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 remember	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 remember	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	insist speech: other a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you				upon eye	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	do in a quote	future	the dervish = dervish	eye				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
3	answer speech: assert	past	the dervish					tree rules
4	remember in a quote	must	you					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent what=Theme
5	tell speech: assert in a quote	past	the dervish = dervish		you	now		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
6	touch a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	eye	your right eye				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme eye=Co-Theme
7	become in a quote	future	you				blind property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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