The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 16
But if I grant her life it shall only be on one condition, which shall make her daily pray for death.
Who acts: I, life, one condition · What happens: grant, be, make, pray · To what, where: passion, one condition
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 41. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, life, one condition), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 grant | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 grant | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 grant | nsubj |
| 4 | grant | grant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 grant | obj |
| 6 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grant | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 condition | nsubj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 condition | aux |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 condition | advmod |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 condition | cop |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 condition | case |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 condition | nummod |
| 13 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grant | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 make | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 make | nsubj |
| 16 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 make | aux |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 condition | parataxis |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 make | obj |
| 19 | daily | daily | ADV | _ | 20 pray | advmod |
| 20 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 make | advcl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 death | case |
| 22 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pray | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grant | present | I | passion | life obl:unmarked | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | shall | life | one condition | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | shall | one condition | passion | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product | ||||
| 4 | pray | present | one condition not said here | for death; daily property | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for death=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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