The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 99

Is it possible," he cried, "that while I am in Bagdad, a man like you should be starving?

Who acts: astonishment, lord, that, you · What happens: be, cry, starve · To what, where: Bagdad, man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (astonishment, lord, that, you), 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	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 possible	cop
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 possible	nsubj
3	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 cried	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	3 possible	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 possible	punct
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 Bagdad	nsubj
11	while	while	SCONJ	_	15 Bagdad	mark
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 Bagdad	nsubj
13	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 Bagdad	cop
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 Bagdad	case
15	Bagdad	Bagdad	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 possible	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 man	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 man	det
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Bagdad	appos
19	like	like	SCONJ	_	23 starving	mark
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 starving	nsubj
21	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 starving	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 starving	aux
23	starving	starve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 man	acl
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 possible	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	astonishment			possible property	tree rules
2	cry speech: express in a quote	past	lord				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	that		Bagdad		tree rules
4	starve	should · progressive	you	a man not said here			tree rules

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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