The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 88

I was grieved to hear of my slave's death, but as my son had only disappeared, I thought I should soon find him.

Who acts: son, I, slave · What happens: grieve, hear, disappear, think, find, die · To what, where: I, son · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (son, I, slave), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 grieved	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grieved	aux:pass
3	grieved	grieve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 hear	mark
5	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 grieved	xcomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 death	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 slave	nmod:poss
8	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 death	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 slave	case
10	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hear	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 thought	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 thought	cc
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 disappeared	mark
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 son	nmod:poss
15	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 disappeared	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 disappeared	aux
17	only	only	ADV	_	18 disappeared	advmod
18	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 thought	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 disappeared	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 thought	nsubj
21	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grieved	advcl
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 find	nsubj
23	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 find	aux
24	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 find	advmod
25	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 thought	ccomp
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 find	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grieved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grieve	past · passive		I		tree rules
2	hear	to-infinitive			of my slave's death	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of death=Stimulus
3	disappear	past · perfect	my son			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	think speech: other	past	I			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	find	should	I	son	soon property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
6	die		my slave			nom death «event intransitive»: 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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