The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 44, sentence 27
If your Highness wishes I will tell you the whole story, when you have recovered from your fatigue."
Who acts: Highness, I, you, your · What happens: wish, tell, recover, fatigue · To what, where: whole story, you, fatigue · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (Highness, I, you, your), 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 | _ | 4 wishes | mark |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 Highness | nmod:poss |
| 3 | Highness | highness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wishes | nsubj |
| 4 | wishes | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 tell | advcl |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 tell | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 tell | aux |
| 7 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 tell | iobj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 story | det |
| 10 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 story | amod |
| 11 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tell | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 recovered | punct |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 recovered | advmod |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 recovered | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 recovered | aux |
| 16 | recovered | recover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 tell | parataxis |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 fatigue | case |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 fatigue | nmod:poss |
| 19 | fatigue | fatigue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 recovered | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 tell | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish a condition, not said to happen | present | your Highness | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | future | I | the whole story | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient story=Topic | |||
| 3 | recover | present · perfect | you | your fatigue | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from fatigue=Source | ||||
| 4 | fatigue | your | nom fatigue «state 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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