The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 79

I felt provoked by her obstinacy, but to excuse her to myself as far as I could, I suggested that perhaps she had never been used to eat in the company of men, and that her family might have taught her that she ought to behave prudently and discreetly in the presence of her husband.

Who acts: I, Amina · What happens: feel, provoke, excuse, suggest, not use, eat · To what, where: Amina, myself, company, family, presence · 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), 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	2 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	provoked	provoke	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 felt	xcomp
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 obstinacy	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 obstinacy	nmod:poss
6	obstinacy	obstinacy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 provoked	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 excuse	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 excuse	cc
9	to	to	PART	_	10 excuse	mark
10	excuse	excuse	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 felt	conj
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 excuse	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 myself	case
13	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 excuse	obl
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 far	advmod
15	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 excuse	advmod
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 could	mark
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 could	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 far	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 suggested	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 suggested	nsubj
21	suggested	suggest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 felt	parataxis
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 used	mark
23	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	28 used	advmod
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 used	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 used	aux
26	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	28 used	advmod
27	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 used	aux:pass
28	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 suggested	ccomp
29	to	to	PART	_	30 eat	mark
30	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 used	xcomp
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 company	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 company	det
33	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 eat	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 men	case
35	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 company	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 taught	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 taught	cc
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 taught	mark
39	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 family	nmod:poss
40	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 taught	nsubj:pass
41	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 taught	aux
42	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 taught	aux
43	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 felt	conj
44	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 taught	obj
45	that	that	SCONJ	_	49 behave	mark
46	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 behave	nsubj
47	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 behave	aux
48	to	to	PART	_	49 behave	mark
49	behave	behave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 taught	advcl
50	prudently	prudently	ADV	_	49 behave	advmod
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 discreetly	cc
52	discreetly	discreetly	ADV	_	50 prudently	conj
53	in	in	ADP	_	55 presence	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 presence	det
55	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 behave	obl
56	of	of	ADP	_	58 husband	case
57	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 husband	nmod:poss
58	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 presence	nmod
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	feel	past	I					vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	provoke	participle	I not said here				by Amina's obstinacy	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	excuse	to-infinitive	I not said here	Amina	myself		far property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
4	suggest speech: suggest	past	I					vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not use	past · perfect · passive		Amina			perhaps property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Theme clause=Eventuality
6	eat	to-infinitive				the company of men		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	teach speech: other	might · perfect · passive		Amina's family	Amina			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient she=Topic
8	behave	ought	Amina			the presence of Amina's husband	prudently property	vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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