The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 80

I should be unworthy indeed of all the love he showers upon me, if I did not return to him at the first possible moment.

Who acts: I, father · What happens: be, shower, not return · To what, where: father

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, father), 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 unworthy	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 unworthy	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 unworthy	cop
4	unworthy	unworthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	4 unworthy	advmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 love	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 love	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 love	det
9	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 showers	obl
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 showers	nsubj
11	showers	shower	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 unworthy	parataxis
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 me	case
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 showers	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 return	punct
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 return	mark
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 return	nsubj
17	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 return	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 return	advmod
19	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 showers	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 return	obl
22	at	at	ADP	_	26 moment	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 moment	det
24	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	26 moment	amod
25	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 moment	amod
26	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 return	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 unworthy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	should	I			indeed, unworthy property	tree rules
2	shower	present	father			of all love; upon me	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon i=Destination
3	not return a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	I	father	moment		vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to he=Result

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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