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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 102

I found him in great trouble about the disappearance of his son, who had, he said, vanished without leaving a trace; but his own grief did not prevent him sharing mine.

Who acts: I, son, executioner, own grief · What happens: find, have, say, vanish, leave, not prevent · To what, where: executioner, great trouble, trace, mine · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, son, executioner, own grief), 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

nsubjobjcaseamodoblcasedetnmodcasenmod:possnmodpunctnsubjacl:relclpunctnsubjparataxispunctconjmarkadvcldetobjpunctccnmod:possamodnsubjauxadvmodconjobjadvclobjpunctrootIPRONfoundVERBhimPRONinADPgreatADJtroubleNOUNaboutADPtheDETdisappearanceNOUNofADPhisPRONsonNOUN,PUNCTwhoPRONhadVERB,PUNCThePRONsaidVERB,PUNCTvanishedVERBwithoutSCONJleavingVERBaDETtraceNOUN;PUNCTbutCCONJhisPRONownADJgriefNOUNdidAUXnotPARTpreventVERBhimPRONsharingVERBminePRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs2 foundnsubj
2foundfindVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 foundobj
4ininADP_6 troublecase
5greatgreatADJDegree=Pos6 troubleamod
6troubletroubleNOUNNumber=Sing2 foundobl
7aboutaboutADP_9 disappearancecase
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 disappearancedet
9disappearancedisappearanceNOUNNumber=Sing6 troublenmod
10ofofADP_12 soncase
11hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs12 sonnmod:poss
12sonsonNOUNNumber=Sing9 disappearancenmod
13,,PUNCT_15 hadpunct
14whowhoPRONPronType=Rel15 hadnsubj
15hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin12 sonacl:relcl
16,,PUNCT_18 saidpunct
17hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs18 saidnsubj
18saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin15 hadparataxis
19,,PUNCT_20 vanishedpunct
20vanishedvanishVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin18 saidconj
21withoutwithoutSCONJ_22 leavingmark
22leavingleaveVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part20 vanishedadvcl
23aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art24 tracedet
24tracetraceNOUNNumber=Sing22 leavingobj
25;;PUNCT_32 preventpunct
26butbutCCONJ_32 preventcc
27hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs29 griefnmod:poss
28ownownADJDegree=Pos29 griefamod
29griefgriefNOUNNumber=Sing32 preventnsubj
30diddoAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin32 preventaux
31notnotPARTPolarity=Neg32 preventadvmod
32preventpreventVERBVerbForm=Inf2 foundconj
33himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs32 preventobj
34sharingshareVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part32 preventadvcl
35minemyPRONNumber=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs34 sharingobj
36..PUNCT_2 foundpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1findpastIexecutionergreat trouble about the disappearance of executioner's sonvn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
2havepastexecutioner's sonvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3say speech: assertpastexecutionervn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4vanishpastexecutioner not said herevn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5leavegerundexecutioner not said herea tracevn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trace=Theme
6not preventpast · do-supportexecutioner's own griefexecutionervn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer he=Theme
7sharegerundexecutioner's own grief not said hereminetree rules
8disappearexecutioner's sonnom disappearance «act intransitive»: of=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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