The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 100
When the usual hour arrived the grand-vizir conducted Scheherazade to the palace, and left her alone with the Sultan, who bade her raise her veil and was amazed at her beauty.
Who acts: usual hour, grand vizir, Sultan, Dinarzade · What happens: arrive, conduct, leave, bade, raise, be · To what, where: Scheherazade, palace, Dinarzade, veil, beauty
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (usual hour, grand vizir, Sultan, Dinarzade), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 arrived | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hour | det |
| 3 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hour | amod |
| 4 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arrived | nsubj |
| 5 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 conducted | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 vizir | det |
| 7 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 vizir | amod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 grand | punct |
| 9 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 conducted | nsubj |
| 10 | conducted | conduct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Scheherazade | Scheherazade | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 conducted | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 palace | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 palace | det |
| 14 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 conducted | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 left | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 left | cc |
| 17 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 conducted | conj |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 left | obj |
| 19 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 17 left | advmod |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 Sultan | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Sultan | det |
| 22 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 left | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 bade | punct |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 bade | nsubj |
| 25 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 Sultan | acl:relcl |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 raise | nsubj |
| 27 | raise | raise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 bade | ccomp |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 veil | nmod:poss |
| 29 | veil | veil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 raise | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 amazed | cc |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 amazed | cop |
| 32 | amazed | amazed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 left | conj |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 beauty | case |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 35 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 amazed | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 conducted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | the usual hour | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | conduct | past | the grand vizir | Scheherazade | the palace | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent scheherazade=Theme to palace=Destination | |||
| 3 | leave | past | the grand vizir not said here | Dinarzade | with the Sultan; alone property | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Recipient with sultan=Theme | |||
| 4 | bade | past | the Sultan | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | raise | infinitive | Dinarzade | Dinarzade's veil | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent veil=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is | past | the grand vizir not said here | Dinarzade's beauty | amazed property | tree rules |
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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