The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 37
When it was over the Sultan dismissed all the court, keeping with him only the chief of the eunuchs and a little slave.
Who acts: audience, Sultan · What happens: be, dismiss, keep · To what, where: Sultan, court, chief
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 (audience, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 dismissed | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 Sultan | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Sultan | cop |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 Sultan | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Sultan | det |
| 6 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 dismissed | nsubj |
| 7 | dismissed | dismiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 court | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 court | det |
| 10 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dismissed | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 keeping | punct |
| 12 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 dismissed | advcl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 keeping | obl |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 chief | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 chief | det |
| 17 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 keeping | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 eunuchs | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 eunuchs | det |
| 20 | eunuchs | eunuch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 chief | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 slave | cc |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 slave | det |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 slave | amod |
| 24 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 eunuchs | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 dismissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | audience | the Sultan | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dismiss | past | the Sultan | all court | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent court=Theme | ||||
| 3 | keep | gerund | the Sultan not said here | the chief of the eunuchs and a little slave | with Sultan | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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