The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 26

If your Highness will deign to consent, and to give the court and the people one of the most astonishing spectacles they have ever witnessed, command the horse to be brought into the big square outside the palace, and leave the rest to me.

Who acts: Highness, court, you · What happens: deign, consent, give, astonish, witness, command · To what, where: court, astonishing spectacles, horse, big square, rest, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Highness, court, 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 deign	mark
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 Highness	nmod:poss
3	Highness	highness	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 deign	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 deign	aux
5	deign	deign	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 command	advcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 consent	mark
7	consent	consent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 deign	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 give	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 give	cc
10	to	to	PART	_	11 give	mark
11	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 deign	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 court	det
13	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 give	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 people	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 people	det
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 court	conj
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 court	appos
18	of	of	ADP	_	22 spectacles	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 spectacles	det
20	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	21 astonishing	advmod
21	astonishing	astonish	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 spectacles	amod
22	spectacles	spectacle	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 one	nmod
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 witnessed	nsubj
24	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 witnessed	aux
25	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	26 witnessed	advmod
26	witnessed	witness	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 spectacles	acl:relcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 command	punct
28	command	command	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 horse	det
30	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 command	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	33 brought	mark
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 brought	aux:pass
33	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 horse	acl
34	into	into	ADP	_	37 square	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 square	det
36	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 square	amod
37	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 brought	obl
38	outside	outside	ADP	_	40 palace	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 palace	det
40	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 square	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 leave	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 leave	cc
43	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	28 command	conj
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 rest	det
45	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 leave	obj
46	to	to	ADP	_	47 me	case
47	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 leave	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 command	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	deign a condition, not said to happen	future	your Highness					tree rules
2	consent	to-infinitive	your Highness not said here					vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	give	to-infinitive	your Highness not said here	the court and the people				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent court=Theme
4	astonish	gerund						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	witness	present · perfect	court	the astonishing spectacles not said here			ever	vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spectacle=Beneficiary
6	command	imperative	you not said here	the horse				vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent horse=Theme
7	bring	to-infinitive · passive	you not said here	the horse not said here		the big square outside the palace		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: into square=Destination
8	leave	infinitive	you not said here	the rest	me			vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent rest=Theme to i=Recipient

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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