The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 55

When we had finished eating, he said to me, "My cousin, you would never guess what I have been doing since your last visit to us!

Who acts: we, cousin, your · What happens: finish, eat, say, not guess, do, visit · To what, where: me, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, cousin, your), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 finished	advmod
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 finished	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 finished	aux
4	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 said	advcl
5	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 finished	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 finished	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 me	case
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 said	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 guess	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 guess	punct
13	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 cousin	nmod:poss
14	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 guess	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cousin	punct
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 guess	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 guess	aux
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 guess	advmod
19	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	conj
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 doing	obj
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 doing	nsubj
22	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 doing	aux
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 doing	aux
24	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 guess	ccomp
25	since	since	ADP	_	28 visit	case
26	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 visit	nmod:poss
27	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 visit	amod
28	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 doing	obl
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 us	case
30	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 doing	obl
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	roles by
1	finish	past · perfect	we			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	eat	gerund	we not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: express	past	cousin	me		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient
4	not guess in a quote	would	My cousin			vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	do in a quote	present · perfect · progressive	cousin	us	since your last visit	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
6	visit in a quote		your			nom visit «act 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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