The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 49

But if you should find that the beads stick, so that they will not slip one after the other, you will know that my brother's fate has befallen me.

Who acts: you, beads, brother · What happens: find, stick, not slip, know, befall, fate · To what, where: one, fate · 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, beads, brother), 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	_	5 find	cc
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 find	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 find	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 find	aux
5	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 stick	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 beads	det
8	beads	bead	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 stick	nsubj
9	stick	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 find	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 slip	punct
11	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	16 slip	mark
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 so	fixed
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 slip	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 slip	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 slip	advmod
16	slip	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 stick	conj
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 slip	obj
18	after	after	ADP	_	20 other	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 other	det
20	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 one	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 know	punct
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 know	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 know	aux
24	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 slip	conj
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 befallen	mark
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 brother	nmod:poss
27	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 fate	nmod:poss
28	's	's	PART	_	27 brother	case
29	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 befallen	nsubj:pass
30	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 befallen	aux
31	befallen	befall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 know	ccomp
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 befallen	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 find	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	find	should	you			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	stick	present	the beads			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	not slip	future	beads = bead	one	after the other	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent one=Patient
4	know	future	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	befall	present · perfect · passive		my brother's fate		tree rules
6	fate		my brother			nom fate «event transitive»: poss=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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