The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 69

My brother," I exclaimed, as soon as I could speak, "almost at the moment of our leave-taking, a reflection occurred to me, which is perhaps new to you.

Who acts: brother, Commander, reflection, our · What happens: exclaim, speak, occur, be, take · To what, where: reflection, me, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, Commander, reflection, our), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 brother	nmod:poss
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 exclaimed	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 brother	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 exclaimed	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 exclaimed	nsubj
6	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 soon	punct
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 soon	advmod
9	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 exclaimed	advmod
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 speak	mark
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 speak	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 speak	aux
13	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 soon	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 speak	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 moment	punct
16	almost	almost	ADV	_	19 moment	advmod
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 moment	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 moment	det
19	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 speak	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	24 taking	case
21	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 taking	nmod:poss
22	leave	leave	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 taking	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 leave	punct
24	taking	taking	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 moment	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 reflection	punct
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 reflection	det
27	reflection	reflection	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 taking	appos
28	occurred	occur	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 reflection	acl
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 me	case
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 occurred	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 new	punct
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 new	nsubj
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 new	cop
34	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	35 new	advmod
35	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 reflection	parataxis
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 you	case
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 new	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	exclaim speech: express in a quote	past	My brother				soon property	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	speak speech: other in a quote	could	Commander			moment		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	occur	participle		a reflection not said here	me			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	present	a reflection		you		new, perhaps property	tree rules
5	take		our					nom taking «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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