The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 74

Of course I do not say that I shall accept his conditions, and perhaps he may be brought to reason, but meanwhile I should like you to examine the horse, and, with the owner's permission, to make trial of its powers."

Who acts: I, son, owner · What happens: not say, accept, bring, like, examine, make · To what, where: conditions, son, reason, you, horse, trial · Speech: someone speaks here

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, son, owner), 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	Of	of	ADP	_	2 course	case
2	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	obl
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 say	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 say	advmod
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 accept	mark
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 accept	nsubj
9	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 accept	aux
10	accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 say	ccomp
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 conditions	nmod:poss
12	conditions	condition	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 accept	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 brought	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 brought	cc
15	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	19 brought	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 brought	nsubj
17	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 brought	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 brought	aux:pass
19	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 say	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 reason	case
21	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 brought	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 like	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 like	cc
24	meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	27 like	advmod
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 like	nsubj
26	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 like	aux
27	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 say	conj
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 like	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 examine	mark
30	examine	examine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 like	xcomp
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 horse	det
32	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 examine	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 permission	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 permission	cc
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 permission	punct
36	with	with	ADP	_	40 permission	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 owner	det
38	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 permission	nmod:poss
39	's	's	PART	_	38 owner	case
40	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 make	punct
42	to	to	PART	_	43 make	mark
43	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 say	parataxis
44	trial	trial	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 make	obj
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 powers	case
46	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 powers	nmod:poss
47	powers	power	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 trial	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	43 make	punct
49	"	"	PUNCT	_	43 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	present · do-support	I			of course; with the owner's permission	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	accept	shall	I	son's conditions			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent condition=Theme
3	bring	may · passive		son	reason	perhaps property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to reason=Destination
4	like	should	I	you		meanwhile property	tree rules
5	examine not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	the horse			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme
6	make	to-infinitive		trial of Horse's powers			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset trial=Product
7	condition		son				nom condition «state transitive»: poss=agent
8	permit		the owner				nom permission «communication transitive»: poss=agent
9	try			Horse's powers			nom trial «act transitive»: of=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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