The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 49

What delicate stews I should feast upon!

Who acts: I · What happens: feast · To what, where: delicate stews

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg128:3361): 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	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 stews	det
2	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stews	amod
3	stews	stew	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 feast	obl
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 feast	nsubj
5	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 feast	aux
6	feast	feast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 feast	obl
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 feast	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feast	should	I	what delicate stews					vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: 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: 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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