The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 2

If you do, you wrong me; and were it not for fear of offending you, I would beseech you to come with me, for my life can only be happy when passed with you.

Who acts: you, devotion, fear, I, life · What happens: do, wrong, not be, offend, beseech, come · To what, where: me, you

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, devotion, fear, I), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 do	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 do	nsubj
3	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wrong	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 do	punct
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 wrong	nsubj
6	wrong	wrong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 wrong	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 fear	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fear	cc
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 fear	cop
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fear	nsubj
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 fear	advmod
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 fear	case
14	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wrong	parataxis
15	of	of	SCONJ	_	16 offending	mark
16	offending	offend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 fear	acl
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 offending	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 beseech	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 beseech	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 beseech	aux
21	beseech	beseech	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wrong	conj
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 beseech	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 come	mark
24	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 beseech	xcomp
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 me	case
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 come	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 happy	punct
28	for	for	SCONJ	_	34 happy	mark
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 life	nmod:poss
30	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 happy	nsubj
31	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 happy	aux
32	only	only	ADV	_	34 happy	advmod
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 happy	cop
34	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 beseech	parataxis
35	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	36 passed	advmod
36	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 happy	advcl
37	with	with	ADP	_	38 you	case
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 passed	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 wrong	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do a condition, not said to happen	present	you			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wrong	present	you	me		tree rules
3	not is	past	devotion		for fear	tree rules
4	offend	gerund	fear not said here	you		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer
5	beseech	would	I	you		tree rules
6	come	to-infinitive	I not said here		with me	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is	can	my life		happy property	tree rules
8	pass	participle	my life not said here		with you	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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