The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 44, sentence 10

Why, if every country house was like this, the towns would soon be deserted.

What happens: be, desert · To what, where: country house

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 44. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 deserted	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 deserted	mark
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 house	det
5	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 house	compound
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 deserted	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 this	cop
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 this	case
9	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 house	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 house	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 towns	det
12	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 deserted	nsubj:pass
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 deserted	aux
14	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 deserted	advmod
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 deserted	aux:pass
16	deserted	desert	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Why	advcl:relcl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						like this	tree rules
2	desert	would · passive		every country house				soon property	vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: subject=Source

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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