The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 82
Let us see if you will dare to repeat your story before the Cadi."
Who acts: you, us · What happens: let, see, dare, repeat · To what, where: us, story
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, us), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 dare | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 dare | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 dare | aux |
| 7 | dare | dare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 see | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 repeat | mark |
| 9 | repeat | repeat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 dare | xcomp |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 story | nmod:poss |
| 11 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 repeat | obj |
| 12 | before | before | ADP | _ | 14 Cadi | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Cadi | det |
| 14 | Cadi | Cadi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 repeat | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | infinitive | us not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | dare a condition, not said to happen | future | you | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | repeat | to-infinitive | you not said here | your story | before the Cadi | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Eventuality |
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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