The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 68

But it would be quite simple for this holy chief of the dervishes to cure her if he only knew!

Who acts: power, dervish · What happens: be, cure, know · To what, where: voice

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 (power, dervish), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 simple	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 simple	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 simple	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 simple	cop
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 simple	advmod
6	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 chief	case
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 chief	det
9	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 chief	amod
10	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 simple	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 dervishes	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 dervishes	det
13	dervishes	dervish	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 chief	nmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 cure	mark
15	cure	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 simple	advcl
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 cure	obj
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 knew	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 knew	nsubj
19	only	only	ADV	_	20 knew	advmod
20	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 cure	advcl
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 simple	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	would	power		for this holy chief of the dervishes; simple property	tree rules
2	cure	to-infinitive	power not said here	voice		vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer she=Source
3	know a condition, not said to happen	past	dervish			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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