The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 113

"How can I be better," answered the Sultan, imitating the language of the Ethiopians, "when I can never sleep for the cries and groans of your husband?"

Who acts: Sultan, husband · What happens: be, answer, imitate, not sleep, groan · To what, where: language · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan, husband), 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	_	6 better	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 better	advmod
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 better	aux
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 better	nsubj
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 better	cop
6	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct
9	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 better	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Sultan	det
11	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 answered	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 imitating	punct
13	imitating	imitate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 answered	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 language	det
15	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 imitating	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 Ethiopians	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Ethiopians	det
18	Ethiopians	Ethiopian	PROPN	Number=Plur	15 language	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sleep	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 sleep	punct
21	when	when	SCONJ	_	25 sleep	mark
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 sleep	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 sleep	aux
24	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	25 sleep	advmod
25	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 imitating	advcl
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 cries	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 cries	det
28	cries	cry	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 sleep	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 groans	cc
30	groans	groan	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 cries	conj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 husband	case
32	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 husband	nmod:poss
33	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 groans	nmod
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 better	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 better	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	can	the Sultan = sultan		good property	tree rules
2	answer speech: ask	past	the Sultan			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	imitate	gerund	the Sultan not said here	the language of the Ethiopians		vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=Theme
4	not sleep in a quote	can	the Sultan = sultan		for the cries and groans of your husband	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	groan in a quote		your husband			nom groan «communication intransitive»: of=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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