The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 35

I approached the throne on which he was seated and made him three low bows, then prostrated myself at his feet to the surprise of everyone, who could not understand how it was possible that a monkey should be able to distinguish a Sultan from other people, and to pay him the respect due to his rank.

Who acts: I, throne, monkey · What happens: approach, seat, make, prostrate, not understand, be · To what, where: throne, Sultan, three low bows, myself, feet, everyone · Speech: someone speaks here

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, throne, monkey), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 approached	nsubj
2	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 throne	det
4	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 approached	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 seated	obl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 seated	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 seated	aux:pass
9	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 throne	acl:relcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 made	cc
11	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 approached	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 made	obj
13	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 bows	nummod
14	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 bows	amod
15	bows	bow	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 made	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 prostrated	punct
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 prostrated	advmod
18	prostrated	prostrate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 approached	conj
19	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 prostrated	obj
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 feet	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 feet	nmod:poss
22	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 prostrated	obl
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 surprise	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 surprise	det
25	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 prostrated	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 everyone	case
27	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	25 surprise	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 understand	punct
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 understand	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 understand	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 understand	advmod
32	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 everyone	acl:relcl
33	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	36 possible	advmod
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 possible	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 possible	cop
36	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 understand	ccomp
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 able	mark
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 monkey	det
39	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 able	nsubj
40	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 able	aux
41	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 able	cop
42	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 possible	advcl
43	to	to	PART	_	44 distinguish	mark
44	distinguish	distinguish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 able	xcomp
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 Sultan	det
46	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 distinguish	obj
47	from	from	ADP	_	49 people	case
48	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 people	amod
49	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 distinguish	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 pay	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 pay	cc
52	to	to	PART	_	53 pay	mark
53	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 distinguish	conj
54	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 pay	obj
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 respect	det
56	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 pay	obj
57	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	60 rank	case
58	to	to	ADP	_	57 due	fixed
59	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	60 rank	nmod:poss
60	rank	rank	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 pay	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 approached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	approach	past	I	the throne					vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent throne=Theme
2	seat	past · passive		Sultan		the throne			vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value
3	make	past	I not said here	three low bows	Sultan				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary bow=Product
4	prostrate	past	I not said here	myself		Sultan's feet	then	to the surprise of everyone	tree rules
5	not understand	could							vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is	past	throne					possible property	tree rules
7	is	should	a monkey					able property	tree rules
8	distinguish	to-infinitive	a monkey not said here	a Sultan				from other people	vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent sultan=Theme from people=Co-Theme
9	pay	to-infinitive	a monkey not said here		Sultan			due Sultan's rank	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient respect=Asset
10	surprise			everyone					nom surprise «feeling transitive»: of=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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