The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 23
When I had ended the officials took the roll and returned to the Sultan.
Who acts: I, officials · What happens: end, take, return · To what, where: roll
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, officials), 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 | _ | 4 ended | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 ended | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ended | aux |
| 4 | ended | end | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 took | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 officials | det |
| 6 | officials | official | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 took | nsubj |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 roll | det |
| 9 | roll | roll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 returned | cc |
| 11 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 took | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Sultan | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Sultan | det |
| 14 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 returned | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | past · perfect | I | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | take | past | the officials | the roll | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roll=Theme | ||||
| 3 | return | past | the officials not said here | to the Sultan result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to sultan=Result |
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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