The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 32
Then they put on me the gorgeous robe and rowed me to land, where I was placed on the horse and led to the palace.
Who acts: officials · What happens: put, row, land, place, lead · To what, where: gorgeous robe, me, I
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 put | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 me | case |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 put | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 robe | det |
| 7 | gorgeous | gorgeous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 robe | amod |
| 8 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 rowed | cc |
| 10 | rowed | row | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 rowed | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 land | mark |
| 13 | land | land | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 rowed | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 placed | punct |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 placed | advmod |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 placed | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 placed | aux:pass |
| 18 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 land | advcl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 horse | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 horse | det |
| 21 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 placed | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 led | cc |
| 23 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 palace | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 palace | det |
| 26 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 led | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | officials = official | the gorgeous robe | then | on me | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent robe=Theme on i=Destination | ||
| 2 | row | past | officials = official not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | land | to-infinitive | officials = official not said here | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | place | past · passive | I | on the horse | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on horse=Destination | ||||
| 5 | lead | past | officials = official not said here | to the palace | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to palace=Patient |
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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