The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 82

That is why I have never interfered, otherwise I should have put a stop to it long ago."

Who acts: That, I · What happens: be, not interfere, put · To what, where: I, stop

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 why	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 why	cop
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 interfered	nsubj
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 interfered	aux
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 interfered	advmod
7	interfered	interfere	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 why	advcl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 put	punct
9	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	13 put	advmod
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 put	nsubj:pass
11	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 put	aux
12	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 put	aux
13	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 interfered	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 stop	det
15	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 put	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 put	obl
18	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 ago	advmod
19	ago	ago	ADV	_	13 put	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 interfered	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 why	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	That			why property	tree rules
2	not interfere	present · perfect	I				tree rules
3	put	should · perfect · passive		I	stop	ago, otherwise property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Asset stop=Goal

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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