The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 14

"If this man was wise he would take these things to Cairo, where he would get a much better price than he is likely to do here."

Who acts: man · What happens: be, take, get, do · To what, where: things, Cairo, better price

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 take	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 wise	mark
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 man	det
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wise	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wise	cop
6	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 take	advcl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 take	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 take	aux
9	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 things	det
11	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 take	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 Cairo	case
13	Cairo	Cairo	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 take	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 get	punct
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 get	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 get	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 get	aux
18	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 take	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 price	det
20	much	much	ADV	_	21 better	advmod
21	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 price	amod
22	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 get	obj
23	than	than	SCONJ	_	26 likely	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 likely	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 likely	cop
26	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 get	advcl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 do	mark
28	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 likely	xcomp
29	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 do	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 take	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	this man				wise property	tree rules
2	take in a quote	would	man	this things	Cairo			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thing=Theme to cairo=Destination
3	get in a quote	would	man	a better price				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer price=Stimulus
4	is in a quote	present	man				likely property	tree rules
5	do in a quote	to-infinitive	man not said here			here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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