The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 53

As for me," she said, "I should take a higher flight; and if we are to wish for husbands, nothing less than the Sultan himself will do for me."

Who acts: ambassador, I, we, Sultan · What happens: say, take, be, do · To what, where: higher flight · 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 (ambassador, I, we, Sultan), 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	As	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	3 me	case
2	for	for	ADP	_	1 As	fixed
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 said	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 me	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 take	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 take	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 take	nsubj
11	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 take	aux
12	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 flight	det
14	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 flight	amod
15	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 take	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 wish	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 wish	cc
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 wish	mark
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 wish	nsubj
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 wish	cop
21	to	to	PART	_	22 wish	mark
22	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Sub Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 husbands	case
24	husbands	husband	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 wish	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 nothing	punct
26	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	22 wish	conj
27	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 nothing	amod
28	than	than	ADP	_	30 Sultan	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Sultan	det
30	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 less	obl
31	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 do	nsubj
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 do	aux
33	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 nothing	acl:relcl
34	for	for	ADP	_	35 me	case
35	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 do	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 wish	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 wish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	ambassador		as words = word	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	take	should	I	a higher flight		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flight=Theme
3	is a condition, not said to happen	present	we		for husbands; wish property	tree rules
4	do	future	Sultan		for me	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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