The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 5

As soon as all the guests had arrived the banquet began as before, and when they had feasted long and merrily, Sindbad addressed them thus:

Who acts: guests, Sindbad · What happens: arrive, begin, feast, address · To what, where: guests

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 (guests, Sindbad), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 began	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 arrived	mark
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 guests	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 guests	det
6	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 arrived	nsubj:pass
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 arrived	aux
8	arrived	arrive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 began	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 banquet	det
10	banquet	banquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 arrived	obj
11	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	as	as	ADV	_	13 before	advmod
13	before	before	ADV	_	11 began	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 feasted	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 feasted	cc
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 feasted	advmod
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 feasted	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 feasted	aux
19	feasted	feast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 began	conj
20	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 feasted	advmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 merrily	cc
22	merrily	merrily	ADV	_	20 long	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 addressed	punct
24	Sindbad	Sindbad	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 addressed	nsubj
25	addressed	address	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 began	conj
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 addressed	obj
27	thus	thus	ADV	_	25 addressed	advmod
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	arrive	past · perfect · passive		all guests		tree rules
2	begin	past			before, soon property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	feast	past · perfect	guests = guest		long property	vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	address	past	Sindbad	guests = guest	thus property	vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination

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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