The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 79

"Wretched man!" he cried, "you ought to die of shame at behaving so to a young wife who has done nothing to you.

Who acts: Wretched man, you, young wife · What happens: cry, die, behave, do · To what, where: nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wretched man, you, young wife), 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	_	3 man	punct
2	Wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 man	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 man	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cried	nsubj
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 die	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 die	punct
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 die	nsubj
11	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 die	aux
12	to	to	PART	_	13 die	mark
13	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 cried	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 shame	case
15	shame	shame	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 die	obl
16	at	at	SCONJ	_	17 behaving	mark
17	behaving	behave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 die	advcl
18	so	so	ADV	_	17 behaving	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	22 wife	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 wife	det
21	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 wife	amod
22	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 behaving	obl
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 done	nsubj
24	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 done	aux
25	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 wife	acl:relcl
26	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	25 done	obj
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 you	case
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 nothing	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Wretched man			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	die in a quote	ought	you		of shame	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of shame=Causer
3	behave in a quote	gerund	you not said here		to a young wife	vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent
4	do in a quote	present · perfect	a young wife	nothing	to you	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality

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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