The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 67

I do not wish to depreciate my own palace, but I can assure you that it is very poor beside that of the King my father, as you will agree when you have been there to greet him, as I hope you will shortly do."

Who acts: I, palace, you · What happens: not wish, depreciate, assure, be, agree, greet · To what, where: own palace, you, that, King · 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 (I, palace, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 wish	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wish	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 wish	advmod
4	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 depreciate	mark
6	depreciate	depreciate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wish	xcomp
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 palace	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 palace	amod
9	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 depreciate	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 assure	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 assure	cc
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 assure	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 assure	aux
14	assure	assure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wish	conj
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 assure	iobj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 poor	mark
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 poor	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 poor	cop
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 poor	advmod
20	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 assure	ccomp
21	beside	beside	ADP	_	22 that	case
22	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 poor	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 King	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 King	det
25	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 that	nmod
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 father	nmod:poss
27	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 poor	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 agree	punct
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 agree	mark
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 agree	nsubj
31	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 agree	aux
32	agree	agree	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wish	parataxis
33	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	37 there	advmod
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 there	nsubj
35	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 there	aux
36	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	37 there	cop
37	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 agree	advmod
38	to	to	PART	_	39 greet	mark
39	greet	greet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 there	advcl
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 greet	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 hope	punct
42	as	as	SCONJ	_	44 hope	mark
43	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 hope	nsubj
44	hope	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 agree	conj
45	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	48 do	nsubj
46	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 do	aux
47	shortly	shortly	ADV	_	48 do	advmod
48	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 hope	ccomp
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wish	punct
50	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 wish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not wish	present · do-support	I					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	depreciate not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	my own palace				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient palace=Extent
3	assure	can	I		you			vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
4	is	present	palace			that	poor property	tree rules
5	agree speech: agree	future	you					vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	present · perfect	you				there property	tree rules
7	greet speech: greet	to-infinitive	you not said here		King			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
8	hope	present	I					vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
9	do	future	you				shortly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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