The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 65

This distressed him so greatly that one day he confided his grief to the grand-vizir, who, being a wise counsellor, said: "Such matters are indeed beyond human aid.

Who acts: This, Schahzaman, grand vizir, Such matters · What happens: distress, confide, be, say · To what, where: Schahzaman, grief, grand vizir, wise counsellor · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (This, Schahzaman, grand vizir, Such matters), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 distressed	nsubj
2	distressed	distress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 distressed	obj
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 greatly	advmod
5	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	2 distressed	advmod
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 confided	mark
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 day	nummod
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 confided	obl:unmarked
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 confided	nsubj
10	confided	confide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 distressed	advcl
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 grief	nmod:poss
12	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 confided	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	17 vizir	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 vizir	det
15	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 vizir	amod
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 grand	punct
17	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 confided	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 counsellor	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 counsellor	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 counsellor	punct
21	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 counsellor	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 counsellor	det
23	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 counsellor	amod
24	counsellor	counsellor	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 vizir	appos
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 said	punct
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 distressed	parataxis
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	35 aid	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 aid	punct
29	Such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 matters	amod
30	matters	matter	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 aid	nsubj
31	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 aid	cop
32	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	35 aid	advmod
33	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	35 aid	case
34	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 aid	amod
35	aid	aid	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 said	ccomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 distressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	distress	past	This	Schahzaman			greatly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
2	confide speech: other	past	Schahzaman	Schahzaman's grief	the grand vizir	day		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent grief=Topic to vizir=Recipient
3	is a	gerund	the grand vizir	a wise counsellor				tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is in a quote	present	Such matters				beyond human aid; indeed property	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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