The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 85

As we drew near their black inhabitants swarmed out in great numbers and surrounded us, and we were led to their houses, and as it were divided among our captors.

Who acts: we · What happens: draw, swarm out, surround, lead, divide · To what, where: black inhabitants, great numbers, us, we, houses, daylight

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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	SCONJ	_	3 drew	mark
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 drew	nsubj
3	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	near	near	ADP	_	7 inhabitants	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 inhabitants	nmod:poss
6	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 inhabitants	amod
7	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 drew	obl
8	swarmed	swarm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 inhabitants	acl
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 swarmed	compound:prt
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 numbers	case
11	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 numbers	amod
12	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 swarmed	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 surrounded	cc
14	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 swarmed	conj
15	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 surrounded	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 led	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 led	cc
18	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 led	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 led	aux:pass
20	led	lead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 drew	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 houses	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 houses	nmod:poss
23	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 led	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 divided	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 divided	cc
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 divided	mark
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 divided	nsubj:pass
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 divided	aux:pass
29	divided	divide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 led	conj
30	among	among	ADP	_	32 captors	case
31	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 captors	nmod:poss
32	captors	captor	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 divided	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	draw	past	we		steps's black inhabitants		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	swarm out	participle		steps's black inhabitants not said here	great numbers		vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in number=Location
3	surround	participle		us			vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme we=Co-Theme
4	lead	past · passive		we	steps's houses		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to house=Destination
5	divide	past · passive		daylight		among our captors	vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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