The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 58

Let me say what a debt I owe to the chance that has led you to my house; you could have entered none which would have given you a warmer welcome.

Who acts: you, me, I, chance · What happens: let, say, owe, lead, enter, give · To what, where: me, debt, chance, you, house, none · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, me, I, chance), 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	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	6 debt	det
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 debt	det
6	debt	debt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 say	obj
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 owe	nsubj
8	owe	owe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 debt	acl:relcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 chance	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 chance	det
11	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 owe	obl
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 led	nsubj
13	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 led	aux
14	led	lead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 chance	acl
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 led	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 house	case
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 house	nmod:poss
18	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 led	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 entered	punct
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 entered	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 entered	aux
22	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 entered	aux
23	entered	enter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Let	parataxis
24	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	23 entered	obj
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 given	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 given	aux
27	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 given	aux
28	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 none	acl:relcl
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 given	iobj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 welcome	det
31	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	32 welcome	amod
32	welcome	welcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 given	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	me				tree rules
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	me not said here	what debt				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent debt=Topic
3	owe	present	I	what debt not said here			to the chance goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent debt=Theme to chance=Goal
4	lead	present · perfect	the chance	you		my house		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to house=Destination
5	enter	could · perfect	you	none				vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme none=Destination
6	give	would · perfect		a warmer welcome	you			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient welcome=Theme

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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