The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 74
If you will grant us this favour, we will, with your permission, do all in our power to help you spend the time pleasantly."
Who acts: you, your · What happens: grant, do, help, spend, permit · To what, where: favour, us, power, you
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, 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 grant | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 grant | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 grant | aux |
| 4 | grant | grant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 do | advcl |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 grant | obj |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 favour | det |
| 7 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grant | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 grant | punct |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 will | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 grant | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 permission | case |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 permission | nmod:poss |
| 14 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 do | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 permission | punct |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 power | det |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 power | case |
| 19 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 power | nmod:poss |
| 20 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 do | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 help | mark |
| 22 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 power | acl |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 help | obj |
| 24 | spend | spend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 help | xcomp |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 time | det |
| 26 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 spend | obj |
| 27 | pleasantly | pleasantly | ADV | _ | 24 spend | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grant a condition, not said to happen | future | you | this favour | us | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent we=Goal favour=Theme | |||
| 2 | do | imperative | you not said here | our power | with your permission | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | help | to-infinitive | you not said here | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | spend | infinitive | you not said here | time | pleasantly property | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | permit | your | nom permission «communication 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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