The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 74

If it was from economy, and you are anxious to teach me not to be wasteful, you have no cause for alarm.

Who acts: appetite, you · What happens: be, teach, not be, have · To what, where: economy, me, cause

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 (appetite, you), 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	_	5 economy	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 economy	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 economy	cop
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 economy	case
5	economy	economy	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 have	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 anxious	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 anxious	cc
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 anxious	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 anxious	cop
10	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 economy	parataxis
11	to	to	PART	_	12 teach	mark
12	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 anxious	advcl
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 teach	obj
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 wasteful	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	17 wasteful	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 wasteful	cop
17	wasteful	wasteful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 teach	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 economy	punct
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 have	nsubj
20	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 cause	det
22	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 have	obj
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 alarm	case
24	alarm	alarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cause	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	past	appetite			economy		tree rules
2	is	present	you				anxious property	tree rules
3	teach speech: other	to-infinitive	you not said here		me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
4	not is	to-infinitive	you not said here				wasteful property	tree rules
5	have	present	you	no cause			for alarm	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=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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