The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 1

Here Sindbad paused, and commanded the musicians to play again, while the feasting continued until evening.

Who acts: Sindbad, feasting · What happens: pause, command, play, continue · To what, where: musicians · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sindbad, 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 paused	advmod
2	Sindbad	Sindbad	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 paused	nsubj
3	paused	pause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 commanded	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 commanded	cc
6	commanded	command	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 paused	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 musicians	det
8	musicians	musician	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 commanded	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 play	mark
10	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 commanded	advcl
11	again	again	ADV	_	10 play	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 continued	punct
13	while	while	SCONJ	_	16 continued	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 feasting	det
15	feasting	feasting	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 continued	nsubj
16	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 paused	parataxis
17	until	until	ADP	_	18 evening	case
18	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 continued	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 paused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	pause	past	Sindbad		here		vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
2	command	past	Sindbad not said here	the musicians			vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent musician=Eventuality
3	play	to-infinitive	Sindbad not said here			again	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	continue	past	the feasting			evening	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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