The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 55
If there is anything in it that you are afraid may offend me, take courage, for I pardon you beforehand.
Who acts: anything, you, I · What happens: be, offend, take, pardon · To what, where: me, courage, 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 (anything, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 is | mark |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 take | advcl |
| 4 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 is | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 anything | nmod |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 afraid | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 afraid | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 afraid | cop |
| 10 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 anything | acl:relcl |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 offend | aux |
| 12 | offend | offend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 afraid | ccomp |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 offend | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 15 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 pardon | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 pardon | mark |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 pardon | nsubj |
| 20 | pardon | pardon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 take | conj |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 pardon | obj |
| 22 | beforehand | beforehand | ADV | _ | 20 pardon | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be a condition, not said to happen | present | anything | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | you | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | offend | may | you not said here | me | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | take | imperative | you not said here | courage | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme | ||||
| 5 | pardon | present | I | you | beforehand property | 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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