The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 119
"If you will give me your promise to do this, I will open the lid.
Who acts: you, genius, your · What happens: give, do, open, promise · To what, where: promise, genius, this, lid
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, genius, your), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 give | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 give | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 give | aux |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 give | iobj |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 promise | nmod:poss |
| 8 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 do | mark |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 promise | acl |
| 11 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 do | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 open | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 open | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 open | aux |
| 15 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 give | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 lid | det |
| 17 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 open | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | future | you | your promise | the genius = genius | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient promise=Theme | |||
| 2 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | open in a quote | future | the genius = genius | the lid | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lid=Theme | ||||
| 4 | promise in a quote | your | nom promise «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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