The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 97

This, Commander of the Faithful, is my story, and may I venture to hope that, now you have heard the reason of my conduct, your Highness will not think this wicked woman too harshly treated?

Who acts: Commander, I, you, Highness, my · What happens: be, venture, hope, hear, not think, treat · To what, where: story, that, reason, wicked woman

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 (Commander, I, you, Highness), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 Commander	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Commander	punct
3	Commander	Commander	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 story	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Faithful	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Faithful	det
6	Faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Commander	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Commander	punct
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 story	cop
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 story	nmod:poss
10	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 venture	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 venture	cc
13	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 venture	aux
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 venture	nsubj
15	venture	venture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 story	acl:relcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 hope	mark
17	hope	hope	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 venture	xcomp
18	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 hope	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 heard	punct
20	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 heard	advmod
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 heard	nsubj
22	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 heard	aux
23	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 story	parataxis
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 reason	det
25	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 heard	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 conduct	case
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 conduct	nmod:poss
28	conduct	conduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 reason	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 think	punct
30	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 Highness	nmod:poss
31	Highness	highness	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 think	nsubj
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 think	aux
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 think	advmod
34	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 heard	conj
35	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 woman	det
36	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 woman	amod
37	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 think	obj
38	too	too	ADV	_	39 harshly	advmod
39	harshly	harshly	ADV	_	40 treated	advmod
40	treated	treat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 think	advcl
41	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 story	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Commander of the Faithful	my story			tree rules
2	venture	may	I	my story not said here			tree rules
3	hope	to-infinitive	I not said here	that			tree rules
4	hear	present · perfect	you	the reason of my conduct	now		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer reason=Stimulus
5	not think speech: other	future	your Highness	this wicked woman			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot woman=Theme
6	treat	participle	your Highness not said here			harshly property	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent
7	conduct		my				nom conduct «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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