The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 98

"Your prayers are useless, and if it were only to hear your head speak when you are dead, you should die."

Who acts: prayers, mercy, head, you, Your · What happens: be, hear, speak, die, pray · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (prayers, mercy, head, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 useless	punct
2	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 prayers	nmod:poss
3	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 useless	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 useless	cop
5	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 speak	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 speak	cc
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 hear	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hear	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 hear	aux
11	only	only	ADV	_	13 hear	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 hear	mark
13	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 speak	advcl
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 head	nmod:poss
15	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 speak	nsubj
16	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 useless	conj
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 dead	advmod
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 dead	nsubj
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 dead	cop
20	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 speak	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 die	punct
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 die	nsubj
23	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 die	aux
24	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 useless	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 useless	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 useless	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Your prayers	useless property	tree rules
2	hear a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	mercy		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
3	speak speech: other in a quote	infinitive	your head		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	present	you	dead property	tree rules
5	die in a quote	should	you		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	pray in a quote		Your		nom prayer «act intransitive»: 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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