The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 46
If you do, you may perhaps hear what you don't like."
Who acts: you · What happens: do, hear, not like · 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), 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 | _ | 3 do | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 do | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 hear | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 hear | nsubj |
| 6 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 hear | aux |
| 7 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 8 hear | advmod |
| 8 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 like | obj |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 like | nsubj |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 like | aux |
| 12 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 like | advmod |
| 13 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 hear | ccomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 hear | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | hear | may | you | perhaps property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not like | present · do-support | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
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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