The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 41

I must confess," he exclaimed, "that I am much more interested in the stories of the barber and his brothers, and of the lame man, than in that of my own jester.

Who acts: I, Sultan, that · What happens: confess, exclaim, be · To what, where: stories · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Sultan, that), 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	3 confess	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 confess	aux
3	confess	confess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 exclaimed	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 exclaimed	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 exclaimed	nsubj
7	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 confess	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 exclaimed	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 exclaimed	punct
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 interested	nsubj
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 interested	nsubj
12	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 interested	cop
13	much	much	ADV	_	14 more	advmod
14	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 interested	advmod
15	interested	interested	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 confess	parataxis
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 stories	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 stories	det
18	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 interested	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 barber	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 barber	det
21	barber	barber	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stories	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 brothers	cc
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 brothers	nmod:poss
24	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 barber	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 man	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 man	cc
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 man	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 man	det
29	lame	lame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 man	amod
30	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 confess	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 that	punct
32	than	than	ADP	_	34 that	case
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 that	case
34	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 man	appos
35	of	of	ADP	_	38 jester	case
36	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 jester	nmod:poss
37	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 jester	amod
38	jester	jester	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 that	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 confess	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	confess	must	I		of the lame man	vn confess-37.10 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	exclaim speech: express in a quote	past	Sultan			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	that	the stories of the barber and Sultan's brothers	interested property	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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