The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 30
The Sultan's officials returned to the ship and showed the royal order to the captain.
Who acts: officials · What happens: return, show · To what, where: royal order, captain
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Sultan | det |
| 2 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 officials | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Sultan | case |
| 4 | officials | official | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 returned | nsubj |
| 5 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 ship | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ship | det |
| 8 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 returned | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 showed | cc |
| 10 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 returned | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 order | det |
| 12 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 order | amod |
| 13 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 showed | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 captain | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 captain | det |
| 16 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 showed | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the Sultan's officials | to the ship result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to ship=Result | ||||
| 2 | show | past | the Sultan's officials not said here | the royal order | the captain | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent order=Topic to captain=Recipient |
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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