The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 75

Let us speak of Amina, your wife, with whom I was acquainted before her marriage.

Who acts: you, us, wife · What happens: let, speak, acquaint, marry · To what, where: us, I · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, us, wife), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg128:2990): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Amina	case
5	Amina	Amina	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 speak	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wife	punct
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 wife	nmod:poss
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Amina	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 whom	punct
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 whom	case
11	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 acquainted	obl
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 acquainted	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 acquainted	aux:pass
14	acquainted	acquaint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 Amina	acl:relcl
15	before	before	ADP	_	17 marriage	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 marriage	nmod:poss
17	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 acquainted	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	us			tree rules
2	speak speech: other	infinitive	us not said here			of Amina	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	acquaint speech: other	past · passive		I	before wife's marriage	with Amina	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
4	marry		wife				nom marriage «state 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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