The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 58
Perhaps you may have taken a loan of them for your business purposes; if that is so you are most welcome.
Who acts: you, that, your · What happens: take, be, loan, purpose · To what, where: loan, friends
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, that, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg128:3060): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 5 taken | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 taken | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 taken | aux |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 taken | aux |
| 5 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 loan | det |
| 7 | loan | loan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taken | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 loan | nmod |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 purposes | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 purposes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 purposes | compound |
| 13 | purposes | purpose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 taken | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 welcome | punct |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 so | mark |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 so | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 so | cop |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 welcome | advcl |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 welcome | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 welcome | cop |
| 21 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 22 welcome | advmod |
| 22 | welcome | welcome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 taken | parataxis |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | may · perfect | you | a loan of friends | for your business purposes; perhaps property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent loan=Theme for purpose=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | that | so property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | you | welcome property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | loan | friends = friend | nom loan «possession transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | purpose | your | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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