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
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 | 2 found | nsubj |
| 2 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 found | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 trouble | case |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 trouble | amod |
| 6 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 found | obl |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 disappearance | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 disappearance | det |
| 9 | disappearance | disappearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 trouble | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 son | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 son | nmod:poss |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 disappearance | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 son | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 said | nsubj |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 had | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 vanished | punct |
| 20 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | conj |
| 21 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 22 leaving | mark |
| 22 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 vanished | advcl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 trace | det |
| 24 | trace | trace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 leaving | obj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 prevent | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 prevent | cc |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 grief | nmod:poss |
| 28 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 grief | amod |
| 29 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 prevent | nsubj |
| 30 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 prevent | aux |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 prevent | advmod |
| 32 | prevent | prevent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 found | conj |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 prevent | obj |
| 34 | sharing | share | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 prevent | advcl |
| 35 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 sharing | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | I | executioner | great trouble about the disappearance of executioner's son | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | |||
| 2 | have | past | executioner's son | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | executioner | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | vanish | past | executioner not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | leave | gerund | executioner not said here | a trace | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trace=Theme | ||||
| 6 | not prevent | past · do-support | executioner's own grief | executioner | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer he=Theme | ||||
| 7 | share | gerund | executioner's own grief not said here | mine | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | disappear | executioner's son | nom 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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