The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 48
The chief of the eunuchs bowed and left the room, ushering in a few moments later the princess, Queen of Beauty.
Who acts: chief · What happens: bow, leave, usher · To what, where: room
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 (chief), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 chief | det |
| 2 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bowed | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 eunuchs | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 eunuchs | det |
| 5 | eunuchs | eunuch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 chief | nmod |
| 6 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 left | cc |
| 8 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bowed | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 room | det |
| 10 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 left | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ushering | punct |
| 12 | ushering | usher | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 left | advcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 moments | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 moments | det |
| 15 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 moments | amod |
| 16 | moments | moment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 ushering | obl |
| 17 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 princess | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 princess | det |
| 19 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 moments | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Queen | punct |
| 21 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 princess | appos |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Beauty | case |
| 23 | Beauty | Beauty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Queen | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow | past | the chief of the eunuchs | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | leave | past | the chief of the eunuchs not said here | the room | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme | ||||
| 3 | usher | gerund | the chief of the eunuchs not said here | moment | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: 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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