The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 2

I have no words, madam, to tell you of my feelings at this terrible sight.

Who acts: I · What happens: have, tell · To what, where: words, you, terrible sight · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 words	det
4	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 madam	punct
6	madam	madam	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 words	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tell	punct
8	to	to	PART	_	9 tell	mark
9	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 have	parataxis
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 tell	iobj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 feelings	case
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 feelings	nmod:poss
13	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 tell	obl
14	at	at	ADP	_	17 sight	case
15	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 sight	det
16	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 sight	amod
17	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tell	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	I	no words and madam					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive			you	this terrible sight		of my feelings	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

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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