The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 68
She then desired the Sultan, the chief of the eunuchs, the little slave, and myself to descend into a secret court of the palace, and placed us beneath a gallery which ran all round, she herself standing in the centre of the court.
Who acts: Queen, myself, gallery · What happens: desire, descend, place, run, stand · To what, where: Sultan, secret court, us, gallery, centre
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 (Queen, myself, gallery), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 desired | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 desired | advmod |
| 3 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Sultan | det |
| 5 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 desired | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 chief | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 chief | det |
| 8 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Sultan | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 eunuchs | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 eunuchs | det |
| 11 | eunuchs | eunuch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 chief | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 slave | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 slave | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 slave | amod |
| 15 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 eunuchs | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 descend | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 descend | cc |
| 18 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 descend | nsubj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 descend | mark |
| 20 | descend | descend | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 desired | conj |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 court | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 court | det |
| 23 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 court | amod |
| 24 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 descend | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 palace | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 palace | det |
| 27 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 court | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 placed | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 placed | cc |
| 30 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 desired | conj |
| 31 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 placed | obj |
| 32 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 34 gallery | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 gallery | det |
| 34 | gallery | gallery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 placed | obl |
| 35 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 ran | nsubj |
| 36 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 gallery | acl:relcl |
| 37 | all | all | ADV | _ | 38 round | advmod |
| 38 | round | round | ADV | _ | 36 ran | advmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 standing | punct |
| 40 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 standing | nsubj |
| 41 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 42 standing | nsubj |
| 42 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 desired | advcl |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 centre | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 centre | det |
| 45 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 standing | obl |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 court | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 court | det |
| 48 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 centre | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 desired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | desire | past | Queen | the Sultan | then | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sultan=Theme | |||
| 2 | descend | to-infinitive | myself | a secret court of the palace | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into court=Location | ||||
| 3 | place | past | Queen not said here | us | a gallery | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent we=Theme beneath gallery=Destination | |||
| 4 | run | past | a gallery | round property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | stand | gerund | Queen | the centre of the court | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in centre=Location |
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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