The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 39

"Sire," I said, "I am more astonished than I can express to you at the strange custom which exists in your dominions of burying the living with the dead.

Who acts: I, strange custom, dominions · What happens: say, be, express, exist, bury · To what, where: you, strange custom, dominions, living · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, strange custom, dominions), 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	_	2 Sire	punct
2	Sire	sire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Sire	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 astonished	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 astonished	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 astonished	nsubj
10	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 astonished	cop
11	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 astonished	advmod
12	astonished	astonished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	ccomp
13	than	than	SCONJ	_	16 express	mark
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 express	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 express	aux
16	express	express	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 astonished	advcl
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 you	case
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 express	obl
19	at	at	ADP	_	22 custom	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 custom	det
21	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 custom	amod
22	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 express	obl
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 exists	nsubj
24	exists	exist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 custom	acl:relcl
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 dominions	case
26	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 dominions	nmod:poss
27	dominions	dominion	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 exists	obl
28	of	of	SCONJ	_	29 burying	mark
29	burying	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 dominions	acl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 living	det
31	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 burying	obj
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 dead	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 dead	det
34	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 burying	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	I					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	I				astonished property	tree rules
3	express in a quote	can	I		you	the strange custom		vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to you=Recipient
4	exist in a quote	present	the strange custom			your dominions		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dominion=Location
5	bury in a quote	gerund	your dominions not said here	the living			with the dead	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent living=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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