The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 6

I repeated to them what I have just told you, at which they were mightily astonished.

Who acts: I · What happens: repeat, tell, astonish · To what, where: savages, I, you · 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), 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 repeated	nsubj
2	repeated	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 repeated	obl
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 told	obj
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 told	nsubj:pass
7	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 told	aux
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 told	advmod
9	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 repeated	conj
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 told	iobj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 astonished	punct
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 which	case
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 astonished	obl
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 astonished	nsubj:pass
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 astonished	aux:pass
16	mightily	mightily	ADV	_	17 astonished	advmod
17	astonished	astonish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 told	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 repeated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	repeat	past	I		savages = savage		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	tell speech: assert	present · perfect · passive		I	you		tree rules
3	astonish	past · passive		savages = savage		mightily property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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