The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 72

"Amina," I exclaimed in astonishment, "is that the way you eat rice at home?

Who acts: I, Amina, you · What happens: exclaim, be, eat · To what, where: Amina, astonishment, way, rice, home · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, Amina, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Amina	punct
2	Amina	Amina	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 way	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 exclaimed	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=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Amina	acl:relcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 astonishment	case
8	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 exclaimed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 exclaimed	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Amina	punct
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 way	cop
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 way	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 way	det
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 eat	nsubj
16	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 way	acl:relcl
17	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 eat	obj
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 home	case
19	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 eat	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 way	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	exclaim speech: express	past	I	Amina not said here	astonishment	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent amina=Topic
2	is a in a quote	present	Amina	the way		tree rules
3	eat in a quote	present	you	rice	home	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rice=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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