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title: "Amina," I exclaimed in astonishment, "is that the way you eat rice… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "Amina," I exclaimed in astonishment, "is that the way you eat rice at home? Who acts: I, Amina, you. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 72

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"Amina," I exclaimed in astonishment, "is that the way you eat rice at home?

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**Who acts:** I, Amina, you · **What happens:** exclaim, be, eat · **To what, where:** Amina, astonishment, way, rice, home · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Amina, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg128:34:72
# text = "Amina," I exclaimed in astonishment, "is that the way you eat rice at home?
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Amina	Amina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | I | Amina *not said here* |  | astonishment |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent amina=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Amina | the way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **eat** *in a quote* | present | you | rice |  | home |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rice=Patient |

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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.

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**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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