The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 15

"And suppose," answered the dervish, "that your enemies are invisible, how then?"

Who acts: you, dervish, that · What happens: suppose, answer, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 42. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, dervish, that), 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	_	3 suppose	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 suppose	cc
3	suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct
6	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 suppose	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dervish	det
8	dervish	dervish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 answered	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 invisible	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 invisible	punct
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 invisible	nsubj
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 enemies	nmod:poss
13	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 invisible	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 invisible	cop
15	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 suppose	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 then	punct
17	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 then	advmod
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 invisible	advmod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 suppose	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 suppose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	suppose in a quote	imperative	you not said here			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	answer speech: assert	past	the dervish			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	that	then	invisible property	tree rules

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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