The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 67

You have only to choose which you would prefer, to become its ruler to the end of your life."

Who acts: You · What happens: have, choose, prefer, become · To what, where: ruler

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 (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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 choose	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 choose	mark
5	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 have	xcomp
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 prefer	obj
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 prefer	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 prefer	aux
9	prefer	prefer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 choose	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 become	punct
11	to	to	PART	_	12 become	mark
12	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 prefer	conj
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 ruler	nmod:poss
14	ruler	ruler	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 become	xcomp
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 end	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 end	det
17	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 become	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 life	case
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 life	nmod:poss
20	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 end	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	have	present	You			tree rules
2	choose	to-infinitive	You not said here			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	prefer	would	you			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus
4	become	to-infinitive	you not said here	city's ruler	to the end of your life	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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