The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 143

"It will give me much pleasure if you will escort me," said the Sultan, "and as I have no children, I will make you my heir."

Who acts: glad, you, Sultan · What happens: give, escort, say, have, make · To what, where: much pleasure, Sultan, children, heir, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (glad, you, Sultan), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 give	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 give	iobj
6	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pleasure	amod
7	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 escort	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 escort	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 escort	aux
11	escort	escort	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 give	advcl
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 escort	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Sultan	det
17	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 make	cc
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 have	mark
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 have	nsubj
23	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 make	advcl
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 children	det
25	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 have	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 have	punct
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 make	nsubj
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 make	aux
29	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	conj
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 make	obj
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 heir	nmod:poss
32	heir	heir	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 make	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 make	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	give in a quote	future	glad	much pleasure	the Sultan = sultan	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient pleasure=Theme
2	escort a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future	you	the Sultan = sultan		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the Sultan			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	have in a quote	present	the Sultan = sultan	no children		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
5	make in a quote	future	the Sultan = sultan	my heir	you	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset you=Beneficiary heir=Product

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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