The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 34
All the way along the streets I had been the object of curiosity to a vast crowd, which had filled every doorway and every window, and it was amidst their shouts and cheers that I was ushered into the presence of the Sultan.
Who acts: way · What happens: be, fill, cheer, usher · To what, where: object, vast crowd, I, presence
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 (way), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 way | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 way | det |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 object | nsubj |
| 4 | along | along | ADP | _ | 6 streets | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 streets | det |
| 6 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 way | nmod |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 object | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 object | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 object | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 object | det |
| 11 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 curiosity | case |
| 13 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 object | nmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 crowd | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 crowd | det |
| 16 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 crowd | amod |
| 17 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 object | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 filled | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 filled | aux |
| 21 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 crowd | acl:relcl |
| 22 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 doorway | det |
| 23 | doorway | doorway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 filled | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 window | cc |
| 25 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 window | det |
| 26 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 doorway | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 shouts | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 shouts | cc |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 shouts | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 shouts | cop |
| 31 | amidst | amidst | SCONJ | _ | 33 shouts | mark |
| 32 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 shouts | nmod:poss |
| 33 | shouts | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 object | parataxis |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 cheers | cc |
| 35 | cheers | cheer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 shouts | conj |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 ushered | mark |
| 37 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 ushered | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 ushered | aux:pass |
| 39 | ushered | usher | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 cheers | ccomp |
| 40 | into | into | ADP | _ | 42 presence | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 presence | det |
| 42 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 ushered | obl |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 Sultan | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 Sultan | det |
| 45 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 presence | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 object | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past · perfect | all way along the streets | the object | of curiosity; to a vast crowd | tree rules | |||
| 2 | fill | past · perfect · passive | a vast crowd | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | past | way | shout property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | cheer | present | way not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | usher | past · passive | I | the presence of the Sultan | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |
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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