The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 66

Then they buried Cassim, and Morgiana his slave followed him to the grave, weeping and tearing her hair, while Cassim’s wife stayed at home uttering lamentable cries.

Who acts: eyes, Morgiana slave, wife · What happens: bury, follow, weep, tear, stay, utter · To what, where: Cassim, grave, hair, home, lamentable cries

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Forty Thieves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, Morgiana slave, wife), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 buried	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 buried	nsubj
3	buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Cassim	Cassim	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 buried	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 followed	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 followed	cc
7	Morgiana	Morgiana	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 slave	compound
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 slave	nmod:poss
9	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 followed	nsubj
10	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 buried	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 followed	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 grave	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 grave	det
14	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 followed	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 weeping	punct
16	weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 buried	advcl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 tearing	cc
18	tearing	tear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 weeping	conj
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 hair	nmod:poss
20	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tearing	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 stayed	punct
22	while	while	SCONJ	_	26 stayed	mark
23	Cassim	Cassim	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 wife	nmod:poss
24	’s	's	PART	_	23 Cassim	case
25	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stayed	nsubj
26	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 buried	conj
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 home	case
28	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stayed	obl
29	uttering	utter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 stayed	advcl
30	lamentable	lamentable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 cries	amod
31	cries	cry	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 uttering	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 buried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	bury	past	eyes = eye	Cassim		then	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cassim=Theme
2	follow	past	Cassim's Morgiana slave	Cassim	the grave		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme to grave=Trajectory
3	weep	gerund	eyes = eye not said here				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tear	gerund	eyes = eye not said here	slave's hair			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location hair=Theme
5	stay	past	Cassim's wife		home		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location
6	utter speech: other	gerund	Cassim's wife not said here	lamentable cries			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cry=Topic

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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