The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 69
I shall be in despair if you oblige me to call in the aid of the law."
Who acts: I, you · What happens: be, oblige, call · To what, where: despair, me, aid · 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 (I, you), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 despair | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 despair | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 despair | cop |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 despair | case |
| 5 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 oblige | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 oblige | nsubj |
| 8 | oblige | oblige | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 despair | acl:relcl |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 oblige | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 call | mark |
| 11 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 oblige | advcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 aid | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 aid | det |
| 14 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 call | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 law | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 law | det |
| 17 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 aid | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 despair | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 despair | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | shall | I | despair | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | oblige a condition, not said to happen | present | you | me | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 3 | call | to-infinitive | you not said here | the aid of the law | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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