The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 34

"If you will be so obstinate," said his wife, "I cannot help it; but do not blame me if it turns out ill."

Who acts: you, wife, light · What happens: be, say, not help, not blame, turn out · To what, where: light, wife · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, wife, light), 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	_	10 said	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	7 obstinate	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 obstinate	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 obstinate	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 obstinate	cop
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 obstinate	advmod
7	obstinate	obstinate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 obstinate	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 obstinate	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 wife	nmod:poss
12	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wife	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 help	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 help	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 help	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 help	advmod
18	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 help	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 blame	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 blame	cc
22	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	24 blame	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 blame	advmod
24	blame	blame	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 help	conj
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 blame	obj
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 turns	mark
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 turns	nsubj
28	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 blame	advcl
29	out	out	ADP	_	28 turns	compound:prt
30	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 turns	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 help	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 help	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	future	you		obstinate property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	husband's wife			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not help in a quote	can	husband's wife = wife	light		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary
4	not blame in a quote	infinitive · do-support	husband's wife = wife not said here	husband's wife = wife		vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
5	turn out a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	light		ill property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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