The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 44
"If you wish it, my sister," replied Zobeida; "but if he does, I must make a new condition.
Who acts: you, Zobeida, Amina · What happens: wish, reply, do, make · To what, where: friend, new condition · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Zobeida, Amina), 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 | _ | 8 sister | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 wish | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 wish | nsubj |
| 4 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 sister | advcl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wish | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wish | punct |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 sister | nmod:poss |
| 8 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sister | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 sister | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Zobeida | Zobeida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | nsubj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 make | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 but | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 make | cc |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 does | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 does | nsubj |
| 18 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 make | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 does | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 make | nsubj |
| 21 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 make | aux |
| 22 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 replied | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 condition | det |
| 24 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 condition | amod |
| 25 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 make | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | friend | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Zobeida | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | do a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | Amina | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | make in a quote | must | Zobeida | a new condition | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent condition=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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