The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 89

"Ah! poor Sindbad," he cried, "I was wondering what could have become of you.

Who acts: poor Sindbad · What happens: cry, wonder, become · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor Sindbad), 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	_	5 Sindbad	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	4 poor	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Sindbad	amod
5	Sindbad	Sindbad	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 cried	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Sindbad	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cried	nsubj
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wondering	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 wondering	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 wondering	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 wondering	aux
14	wondering	wonder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 cried	advcl
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 become	xcomp
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 become	aux
17	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 become	aux
18	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 wondering	ccomp
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 you	case
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 become	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	poor Sindbad		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wonder speech: ask in a quote	past · progressive	poor Sindbad = sindbad		vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	become in a quote	could · perfect		of you	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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