The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 59

As to your being a slave, of course that is merely a joke, and my reception must itself have assured you that you are as free here as at your father's court.

Who acts: that, you, my · What happens: be, assure, receive · To what, where: reception, you, court

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 (that, you, my), 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	As	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	6 slave	case
2	to	to	ADP	_	1 As	fixed
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 slave	nmod:poss
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 slave	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 slave	det
6	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 slave	punct
8	of	of	ADP	_	14 joke	case
9	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 of	fixed
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 joke	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 joke	cop
12	merely	merely	ADV	_	14 joke	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 joke	det
14	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 slave	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 assured	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 assured	cc
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 reception	nmod:poss
18	reception	reception	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 assured	nsubj:pass
19	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 assured	aux
20	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 assured	nsubj:pass
21	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 assured	aux
22	assured	assure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 joke	parataxis
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 assured	iobj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 here	mark
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 here	nsubj
26	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 here	cop
27	as	as	ADP	_	28 free	case
28	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 here	amod
29	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 assured	advmod
30	as	as	ADV	_	29 here	advmod
31	at	at	ADP	_	35 court	case
32	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 father	nmod:poss
33	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 court	nmod:poss
34	's	's	PART	_	33 father	case
35	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 here	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 slave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	gerund					as your slave	tree rules
2	is	present	that				of a joke; merely property	tree rules
3	assure	must · perfect · passive		my reception	you			vn ensure-99 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary you=Theme
4	is	present	you			your father's court	here property	tree rules
5	receive		my					nom reception «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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