The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 82

I am sure you will understand my position, and will feel that to remain away one instant longer than is necessary would not only be ungrateful on my part, but perhaps even a crime, for how do I know if my absence may not break his heart?

Who acts: I, you, absence, my · What happens: be, understand, feel, remain away, not be, know · To what, where: position, part, heart

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, you, absence, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 sure	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sure	cop
3	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 understand	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 understand	aux
6	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sure	ccomp
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 position	nmod:poss
8	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 understand	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 feel	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 feel	cc
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 feel	aux
12	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 sure	parataxis
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 remain	mark
14	to	to	PART	_	15 remain	mark
15	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 feel	ccomp
16	away	away	ADV	_	15 remain	advmod
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 instant	nummod
18	instant	instant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 feel	parataxis
19	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 necessary	advmod
20	than	than	SCONJ	_	22 necessary	mark
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 necessary	cop
22	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 feel	conj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 necessary	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 ungrateful	advmod
25	only	only	ADV	_	27 ungrateful	advmod
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 ungrateful	cop
27	ungrateful	ungrateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 would	amod
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 part	case
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 part	nmod:poss
30	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 ungrateful	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 crime	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 crime	cc
33	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	36 crime	advmod
34	even	even	ADV	_	36 crime	advmod
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 crime	det
36	crime	crime	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 feel	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 know	punct
38	for	for	SCONJ	_	42 know	mark
39	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	42 know	advmod
40	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 know	aux
41	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 know	nsubj
42	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 feel	parataxis
43	if	if	SCONJ	_	48 break	mark
44	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 absence	nmod:poss
45	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 break	nsubj
46	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 break	aux
47	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	48 break	advmod
48	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 know	advcl
49	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 heart	nmod:poss
50	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 break	obj
51	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 sure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	I			sure property	tree rules
2	understand	future	you	my position			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer position=Stimulus
3	feel	future					vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	remain away	to-infinitive				away property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	would · present				long, necessary property	tree rules
6	not is	infinitive			my part	ungrateful property	tree rules
7	know	present · do-support	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	not break a condition, not said to happen	may	my absence	father's heart			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer heart=Patient
9	absent		my				nom absence «state 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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