The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 33
Here the Sultan was awaiting me in great state surrounded by his court.
Who acts: Sultan · What happens: await, surround · To what, where: me, great state
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 (Sultan), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 awaiting | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Sultan | det |
| 3 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 awaiting | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 awaiting | aux |
| 5 | awaiting | await | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 awaiting | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 state | case |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 state | amod |
| 9 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 awaiting | obl |
| 10 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 state | acl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 court | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 court | nmod:poss |
| 13 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 awaiting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | await | past · progressive | the Sultan | me | great state; here | tree rules | |||
| 2 | surround | participle | great state not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
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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