The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 80

Besides, if I were to use all the pearls I possess, they would not be half enough."

Who acts: I · What happens: use, possess, not be · To what, where: pearls

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 43. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	Besides	besides	INTJ	_	7 use	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Besides	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 use	mark
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 use	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 use	aux
6	to	to	PART	_	7 use	mark
7	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 pearls	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pearls	det
10	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 use	obj
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 possess	nsubj
12	possess	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 pearls	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 would	punct
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 would	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 use	advcl
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 half	advmod
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 half	cop
18	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	15 would	advmod
19	enough	enough	ADV	_	18 half	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 use	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 use	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	use	past	I	all pearls		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pearl=Patient
2	possess	present	I	all pearls not said here		vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot pearl=Theme
3	not is	infinitive			enough, half 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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