The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 10

He assured me that my long absence had disquieted him much, but he had nevertheless hoped for the best.

Who acts: Bagdad, my · What happens: assure, disquiet, hope, absent · To what, where: me, long absence

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bagdad, my), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 assured	nsubj
2	assured	assure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 assured	iobj
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 disquieted	mark
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 absence	nmod:poss
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 absence	amod
7	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 disquieted	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 disquieted	aux
9	disquieted	disquiet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 assured	ccomp
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 disquieted	obj
11	much	much	ADV	_	9 disquieted	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 hoped	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 hoped	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 hoped	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 hoped	aux
16	nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	_	17 hoped	advmod
17	hoped	hope	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 assured	conj
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 best	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 best	det
20	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 hoped	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 assured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	assure	past	Bagdad		me		vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	disquiet	past · perfect · passive		my long absence			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer he=Result
3	hope	past · perfect	Bagdad			for the best; nevertheless property	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for good=Theme
4	absent		my				nom absence «state 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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