The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 21

In the place of honour sat a tall, grave man whose long white beard gave him a venerable air.

Who acts: tall grave man · What happens: sit, give · To what, where: place, venerable air, beard

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tall grave man), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 place	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 place	det
3	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sat	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 honour	case
5	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 place	nmod
6	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 man	det
8	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tall	punct
10	grave	grave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gave	nsubj
12	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	15 beard	nmod:poss
13	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 beard	amod
14	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 beard	amod
15	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gave	nsubj
16	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sat	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 gave	iobj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 air	det
19	venerable	venerable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 air	amod
20	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gave	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past				the place of honour			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location
2	give	past	a tall grave man	a venerable air	beard				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient air=Theme

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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