The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 7

Within the palace he heard some music, as of many instruments cunningly played, and the melodious warble of nightingales and other birds, and by this, and the appetising smell of many dainty dishes of which he presently became aware, he judged that feasting and merry making were going on.

Who acts: perfume, many instruments, appetising smell, feasting, many dainty dishes · What happens: hear, play, appetis, become, judge, make · To what, where: music, melodious warble

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 (perfume, many instruments, appetising smell, feasting), 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	Within	within	ADP	_	3 palace	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 palace	det
3	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 heard	nsubj
5	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 music	det
7	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 played	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 played	mark
10	of	of	ADP	_	9 as	fixed
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 instruments	amod
12	instruments	instrument	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 played	nsubj
13	cunningly	cunningly	ADV	_	14 played	advmod
14	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 warble	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 warble	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 warble	det
18	melodious	melodious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 warble	amod
19	warble	warble	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 played	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 nightingales	case
21	nightingales	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 warble	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 birds	cc
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 birds	amod
24	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 nightingales	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 this	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 this	cc
27	by	by	ADP	_	28 this	case
28	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 played	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 judged	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 judged	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 smell	det
32	appetising	appetis	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 smell	amod
33	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 judged	nsubj
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 dishes	case
35	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 dishes	amod
36	dainty	dainty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 dishes	amod
37	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 smell	nmod
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 which	case
39	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 became	obl
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 became	nsubj
41	presently	presently	ADV	_	42 became	advmod
42	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 dishes	acl:relcl
43	aware	aware	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 became	xcomp
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 smell	punct
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 judged	nsubj
46	judged	judge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	conj
47	that	that	SCONJ	_	53 going	mark
48	feasting	feasting	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 going	nsubj
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 merry	cc
50	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 feasting	conj
51	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	48 feasting	acl
52	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 going	aux
53	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	46 judged	advcl
54	on	on	ADP	_	53 going	compound:prt
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	perfume	some music	within the palace	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer music=Stimulus
2	play	past	many instruments	the melodious warble of nightingales and other birds	by this; cunningly property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	appetis	gerund				tree rules
4	become	past	perfume		of many dainty dishes; aware, presently property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	judge	past	the appetising smell of many dainty dishes			vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent
6	make	gerund	feasting not said here			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
7	go on	past · progressive	feasting			vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	smell		many dainty dishes			nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=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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