The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 64

Now, seeing that the customs of our land oblige us to marry without ever beholding the person with whom we are to pass our lives, a man has of course no right to complain as long as his wife is not absolutely repulsive, or is not positively deformed.

Who acts: customs, man, wife · What happens: see, oblige, marry, behold, pass, have · To what, where: us, person, lives, course

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (customs, man, 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 seeing	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 oblige	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 customs	det
6	customs	custom	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 oblige	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 land	case
8	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 land	nmod:poss
9	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 customs	nmod
10	oblige	oblige	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 seeing	advcl
11	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 oblige	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 marry	mark
13	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 oblige	xcomp
14	without	without	SCONJ	_	16 beholding	mark
15	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	16 beholding	advmod
16	beholding	behold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 marry	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 person	det
18	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 beholding	obj
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 whom	case
20	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 beholding	obl
21	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 are	nsubj
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 whom	acl:relcl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 pass	mark
24	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 are	advcl
25	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 lives	nmod:poss
26	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 pass	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 has	punct
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 man	det
29	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 has	nsubj
30	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 seeing	advcl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 course	case
32	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 has	obj
33	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	34 right	det
34	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 course	obj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 complain	mark
36	complain	complain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 right	acl
37	as	as	ADV	_	38 long	advmod
38	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	36 complain	advmod
39	as	as	SCONJ	_	45 repulsive	mark
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 wife	nmod:poss
41	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 repulsive	nsubj
42	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 repulsive	cop
43	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	45 repulsive	advmod
44	absolutely	absolutely	ADV	_	45 repulsive	advmod
45	repulsive	repulsive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 long	advcl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 deformed	punct
47	or	or	CCONJ	_	51 deformed	cc
48	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 deformed	aux
49	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	51 deformed	advmod
50	positively	positively	ADV	_	51 deformed	advmod
51	deformed	deform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 complain	advcl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seeing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	gerund			now		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	oblige	present	the customs of our land	us			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent we=Patient clause=Result
3	marry	to-infinitive	the customs of our land not said here				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	behold	gerund	the customs of our land not said here	the person	ever		vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer person=Stimulus
5	pass	to-infinitive	the customs of our land not said here	our lives			vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme life=Trajectory
6	have	present	a man	course			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent course=Patient
7	complain speech: other	to-infinitive	a man not said here			long property	vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	not is	present	man's wife			absolutely, repulsive property	tree rules
9	not deform	present · passive	a man not said here			positively property	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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