The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 58

I should like to show it to you, but you must first swear two things: to be faithful to me, and to keep my secret."

Who acts: I, you · What happens: like, show, swear, be, keep · To what, where: number, you, two things, me, secret

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 (I, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 like	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 like	aux
3	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 show	mark
5	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 like	xcomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 show	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 you	case
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 show	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 swear	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 swear	cc
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 swear	nsubj
12	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 swear	aux
13	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 swear	advmod
14	swear	swear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 show	conj
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 things	nummod
16	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 swear	obj
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 faithful	punct
18	to	to	PART	_	20 faithful	mark
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 faithful	cop
20	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 things	acl:relcl
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 me	case
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 faithful	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 keep	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 keep	cc
25	to	to	PART	_	26 keep	mark
26	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 swear	conj
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 secret	nmod:poss
28	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 keep	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 like	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	like	should	I				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	show not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	number	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to you=Recipient
3	swear	must	you	two things		first property	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
4	is	to-infinitive	you not said here	two things not said here	me	faithful property	tree rules
5	keep	to-infinitive	you not said here	my secret			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=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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