The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 8

You had better come down and speak to him yourself."

Who acts: You · What happens: have, come down, speak · To what, where: yourself, 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 (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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 had	advmod
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 speak	cc
7	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 come	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 speak	obl
10	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 speak	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	You			well property	tree rules
2	come down	infinitive	You not said here			down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	speak speech: other	infinitive	You not said here	yourself	man		vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent

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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