The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 65

And whatever defects her body may have, pleasant ways and good behaviour will go far to remedy them.

Who acts: whatever, body, good behaviour · What happens: defect, have, go, remedy · To what, where: pleasant ways, wife

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 (whatever, body, good behaviour), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 defects	cc
2	whatever	whatever	DET	PronType=Int	3 defects	nsubj
3	defects	defect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 body	nmod:poss
5	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 have	nsubj
6	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 have	aux
7	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 defects	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ways	punct
9	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ways	amod
10	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 have	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 go	cc
12	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 behaviour	amod
13	behaviour	behaviour	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 go	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 go	aux
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 ways	conj
16	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 remedy	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 remedy	mark
18	remedy	remedy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 go	advcl
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 remedy	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 defects	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	defect	present	whatever			tree rules
2	have	may	person's body	pleasant ways		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	go	future	good behaviour			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	remedy	to-infinitive	good behaviour not said here	wife	far property	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=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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