The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 23

But really by this time he must be dead, and there is no reason we should not eat the olives if we like.

Who acts: Ali, reason, we · What happens: be, not eat, like · To what, where: olives

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 (Ali, reason, we), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 dead	cc
2	really	really	ADV	_	9 dead	advmod
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 time	case
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dead	obl
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 dead	nsubj
7	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 dead	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 dead	cop
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 is	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 is	cc
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 is	expl
13	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 dead	conj
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 reason	det
15	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 is	nsubj
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 eat	nsubj
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 eat	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 eat	advmod
19	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 reason	acl:relcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 olives	det
21	olives	olive	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 eat	obj
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 like	mark
23	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 like	nsubj
24	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 eat	advcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 dead	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	must	Ali			time	dead property	tree rules
2	be	present	no reason		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not eat	should	we	the olives				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent olive=Patient
4	like a condition, not said to happen	present	we					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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