The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 57

He would now have thought himself the happiest of men had it not been for that separation which he never ceased to bewail.

Who acts: Camaralzaman, happiest · What happens: think, have, not be, not cease, bewail · To what, where: Camaralzaman, esteem, separation · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Camaralzaman, happiest), 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	5 thought	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 thought	aux
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 thought	advmod
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 thought	aux
5	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 thought	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 happiest	det
8	happiest	happy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 had	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 men	case
10	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thought	ccomp
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 had	obj
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 separation	advmod
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 separation	cop
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 separation	case
16	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 separation	det
17	separation	separation	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obl
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 ceased	obj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 ceased	nsubj
20	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	21 ceased	advmod
21	ceased	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 separation	acl:relcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 bewail	mark
23	bewail	bewail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 ceased	xcomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	would · perfect	Camaralzaman	Camaralzaman	now		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute clause=Theme
2	have	past	the happiest	esteem			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	not is	participle				for that separation	tree rules
4	not cease	past	Camaralzaman	that separation			tree rules
5	bewail	to-infinitive	Camaralzaman not said here				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

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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