The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 41

I was so overcome with joy at this sight that I forgot all the old man had told me, and cried out, "Allah be praised!

Who acts: I · What happens: be, forget, tell, cry out, praise · To what, where: sight, old man, me, Allah · 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	4 overcome	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 overcome	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 overcome	advmod
4	overcome	overcome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 joy	case
6	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 overcome	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 sight	case
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 sight	det
9	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 joy	nmod
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 forgot	obj
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 forgot	nsubj
12	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sight	acl:relcl
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 man	det:predet
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 man	det
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 man	amod
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 told	nsubj:pass
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 told	aux
18	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 forgot	parataxis
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 told	iobj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 cried	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 cried	cc
22	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 overcome	parataxis
23	out	out	ADP	_	22 cried	compound:prt
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 praised	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 praised	punct
26	Allah	Allah	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 praised	nsubj:pass
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 praised	aux:pass
28	praised	praise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 cried	conj
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 overcome	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	I			with joy at this sight; overcome property	tree rules
2	forget	past	I	this sight			tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		all old man	me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient i=Topic
4	cry out speech: express	past					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	praise in a quote	infinitive · passive		Allah			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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