The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 64

In fact, he had but one grievance, which was that none of his four wives had given him an heir.

Who acts: Schahzaman · What happens: have, give · To what, where: one grievance, fact, none

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Schahzaman), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 fact	case
2	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 fact	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 grievance	cc
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 grievance	nummod
8	grievance	grievance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 given	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 given	obj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 given	aux:pass
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 given	mark
13	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	19 given	nsubj:pass
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 wives	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 wives	nmod:poss
16	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 wives	nummod
17	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 none	nmod
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 given	aux
19	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 grievance	advcl
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 given	obj
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 heir	det
22	heir	heir	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 given	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Schahzaman	one grievance		fact			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grievance=Patient
2	give	past · perfect · passive		none					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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