The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 63
Greatly as I prize it, I will yield it up to your Highness on one condition.
Who acts: I · What happens: prize, yield up · To what, where: Indian, Highness
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), 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 | Greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 9 yield | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 prize | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 prize | nsubj |
| 4 | prize | prize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 yield | advcl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 prize | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 prize | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 yield | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 yield | aux |
| 9 | yield | yield | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 yield | obj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 yield | compound:prt |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Highness | case |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 Highness | nmod:poss |
| 14 | Highness | highness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 yield | obl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 condition | case |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 condition | nummod |
| 17 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Highness | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 yield | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prize | present | I | Indian | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | yield up | future | I | Indian | to your Highness on one condition goal; greatly property | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent it=Theme to highness=Goal |
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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