The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 52

I have only to mount him, and to wish myself in some special place, and no matter how distant it may be, in a very few moments I shall find myself there.

Who acts: I, few moments · What happens: have, mount, wish, be, find · To what, where: Sire, myself, special place

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, few moments), 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	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 mount	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 mount	mark
5	mount	mount	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 have	xcomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 mount	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wish	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 wish	cc
9	to	to	PART	_	10 wish	mark
10	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 mount	conj
11	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 wish	iobj
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 place	case
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 place	det
14	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 place	amod
15	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wish	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 find	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 find	cc
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 matter	det
19	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 moments	nmod:poss
20	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	21 distant	advmod
21	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 matter	amod
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 distant	nsubj
23	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 moments	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 moments	cop
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 moments	punct
26	in	in	ADP	_	30 moments	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 moments	det
28	very	very	ADV	_	29 few	advmod
29	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 moments	amod
30	moments	moment	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 find	nsubj
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 find	nsubj
32	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 find	aux
33	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 have	parataxis
34	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 find	obj
35	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 find	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	have	present	I					tree rules
2	mount	to-infinitive	I not said here	Sire				vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	wish	to-infinitive	I not said here		myself	some special place		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot myself=Theme
4	is	may					in no matter's few moments	tree rules
5	find	shall	no matter's few moments	myself		there		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Topic

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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