The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 32

"I should not deserve to live," I said to the genius, "if I were such a coward as to slay a lady who is not only unknown to me, but who is at this moment half dead herself.

Who acts: I, lady · What happens: not deserve, live, say, be, slay, not be · To what, where: genius, coward, lady, me, moment half · 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, lady), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 deserve	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 deserve	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 deserve	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 deserve	advmod
5	deserve	deserve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 live	mark
7	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 deserve	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 deserve	advcl
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 genius	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 genius	det
14	genius	genius	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 coward	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 coward	punct
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 coward	mark
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 coward	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 coward	cop
20	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	22 coward	det:predet
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 coward	det
22	coward	coward	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	ccomp
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 slay	mark
24	to	to	PART	_	25 slay	mark
25	slay	slay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 coward	acl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 lady	det
27	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 slay	obj
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 unknown	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 unknown	cop
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 unknown	advmod
31	only	only	ADV	_	32 unknown	advmod
32	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 lady	acl:relcl
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 me	case
34	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 unknown	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 dead	punct
36	but	but	CCONJ	_	43 dead	cc
37	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 dead	nsubj
38	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 dead	cop
39	at	at	ADP	_	42 half	case
40	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	42 half	det
41	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 half	compound
42	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	43 dead	obl
43	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 deserve	advcl
44	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	43 dead	nsubj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 deserve	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not deserve in a quote	should	I					tree rules
2	live in a quote	to-infinitive	I not said here					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	I		the genius			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to genius=Recipient
4	is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	I	such coward				tree rules
5	slay in a quote	to-infinitive	I not said here	a lady				vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Patient
6	not is in a quote	present	a lady		me		unknown property	tree rules
7	is in a quote	present				this moment half	dead property	tree rules

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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