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title: I was grieved to hear of my slave's death, but as my son had only di… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: I was grieved to hear of my slave's death, but as my son had only disappeared, I thought I should soon find him. Who acts: son, I, slave. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 88

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I was grieved to hear of my slave's death, but as my son had only disappeared, I thought I should soon find him.

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**Who acts:** son, I, slave · **What happens:** grieve, hear, disappear, think, find, die · **To what, where:** I, son · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, I, slave), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg128:2:88
# text = I was grieved to hear of my slave's death, but as my son had only disappeared, I thought I should soon find him.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	grieved	grieve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	only	only	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
25	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	ccomp	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grieve** | past · passive |  | I |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hear** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | of my slave's death | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of death=Stimulus |
| 3 | **disappear** | past · perfect | my son |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **find** | should | I | son |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
| 6 | **die** |  | my slave |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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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