The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 18

If it must be so," he said, with a sigh, "take this, and when you have mounted your horse throw the ball in front of you.

Who acts: mind, dervish, you · What happens: be, say, take, mount, throw · To what, where: this, horse, ball, front · 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 (mind, dervish, 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 so	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 so	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 so	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 so	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	9 said	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 so	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 so	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sigh	punct
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 sigh	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 sigh	det
13	sigh	sigh	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 take	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 take	punct
16	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
17	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 take	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 mounted	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 mounted	cc
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 mounted	advmod
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 mounted	nsubj
22	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 mounted	aux
23	mounted	mount	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 said	conj
24	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 horse	nmod:poss
25	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 mounted	obj
26	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 mounted	xcomp
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 ball	det
28	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 throw	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 front	case
30	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 throw	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 you	case
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 front	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	must	mind			so property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	dervish				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	take	infinitive		this			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme
4	mount	present · perfect	you	your horse			tree rules
5	throw	infinitive	you not said here	the ball	front of you		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent ball=Theme in front=Destination

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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