The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 86

They greeted me kindly, and bewailed my misfortune, though, indeed, they had expected nothing less. "

Who acts: wonders · What happens: greet, bewail, expect · To what, where: me, misfortune, wonders

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wonders), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 greeted	nsubj
2	greeted	greet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 greeted	obj
4	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	2 greeted	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bewailed	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 bewailed	cc
7	bewailed	bewail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 greeted	parataxis
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 misfortune	nmod:poss
9	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bewailed	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 though	punct
11	though	though	ADV	_	7 bewailed	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 indeed	punct
13	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	11 though	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 expected	punct
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 expected	nsubj:pass
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 expected	aux
17	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 bewailed	conj
18	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	17 expected	obj
19	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 expected	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 greeted	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 greeted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	greet speech: greet	past	wonders = wonder		me	kindly property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	bewail	past		my misfortune		though property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer misfortune=Stimulus
3	expect	past · perfect · passive		wonders = wonder		less property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme nothing=Eventuality

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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