The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 28
If you were, you would have had more consideration for us."
Who acts: you · What happens: be, have · To what, where: more consideration
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. 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 were | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 were | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 had | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 were | punct |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 had | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 had | aux |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 had | aux |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 consideration | amod |
| 10 | consideration | consideration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 us | case |
| 12 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 consideration | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be a condition, not said to happen | past | you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | would · perfect | you | more consideration | for us | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consideration=Patient |
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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