The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 74

My cousin," he exclaimed, "I do not know how to thank you for your kindness.

Who acts: cousin, I · What happens: exclaim, not know, thank · To what, where: you · 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 (cousin, I), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 cousin	nmod:poss
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 exclaimed	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 cousin	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 exclaimed	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 exclaimed	nsubj
6	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 know	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 know	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 know	nsubj
10	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 know	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 know	advmod
12	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 exclaimed	conj
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 thank	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 thank	mark
15	thank	thank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 know	ccomp
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 thank	obj
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 kindness	case
18	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 kindness	nmod:poss
19	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 thank	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	exclaim speech: express in a quote	past	My cousin			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	not know	present · do-support	I			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	thank speech: thank	to-infinitive		you	for your kindness	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent you=Theme for kindness=Attribute

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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