The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 42

But instead of embracing them he began to weep so bitterly that they soon guessed that something terrible was the matter.

Who acts: merchant, wife, something · What happens: embrace, begin, weep, guess, be · To what, where: wife, matter

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant, wife, something), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 began	cc
2	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	4 embracing	mark
3	of	of	ADP	_	2 instead	fixed
4	embracing	embrace	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 began	advcl
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 embracing	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 began	nsubj
7	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 weep	mark
9	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 began	xcomp
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 bitterly	advmod
11	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	9 weep	advmod
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 guessed	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 guessed	nsubj
14	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 guessed	advmod
15	guessed	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 bitterly	advcl
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 matter	mark
17	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	21 matter	nsubj
18	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 something	amod
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 matter	cop
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 matter	det
21	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 guessed	advcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	embrace	gerund	merchant not said here	wife		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent
2	begin	past	merchant			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	weep	to-infinitive	merchant not said here		bitterly property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	guess	past	wife		soon property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past	something	the matter		tree rules

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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