The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 22
If you do, you will instantly become a black stone like the rest.
Who acts: you · What happens: do, become · To what, where: black stone
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), 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 | _ | 3 do | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 do | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 become | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 become | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 become | aux |
| 7 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 8 become | advmod |
| 8 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 stone | det |
| 10 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 stone | amod |
| 11 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 become | xcomp |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 rest | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 rest | det |
| 14 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stone | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 become | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | become | future | you | a black stone like the rest | instantly property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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