The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 24

And supposing that I had the strength, why should I put an innocent man to death?"

Who acts: I · What happens: suppose, have, put · To what, where: strength, innocent man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	2 supposing	cc
2	supposing	suppose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 had	mark
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 supposing	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 strength	det
7	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 put	punct
9	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	12 put	advmod
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 put	aux
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 put	nsubj
12	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 strength	acl:relcl
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 man	det
14	innocent	innocent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 man	amod
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 put	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 death	case
17	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 put	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 supposing	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 supposing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	suppose	gerund					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	have	past	I	the strength			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Patient
3	put	should	I		a innocent man	to death	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent man=Goal

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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