The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 50
I followed it, and after me came a great procession, headed by the king and all his nobles, and in this order we reached the fatal mountain, which was one of a lofty chain bordering the sea.
Who acts: I, me, we, fatal mountain, lofty chain · What happens: follow, come, head, reach, be, border · To what, where: bier, great procession, fatal mountain, order, one, sea
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, me, we, fatal mountain), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 followed | nsubj |
| 2 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 followed | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 came | cc |
| 6 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 8 came | mark |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 followed | parataxis |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 procession | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 procession | amod |
| 11 | procession | procession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 headed | punct |
| 13 | headed | head | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 procession | acl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 king | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 headed | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 nobles | cc |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 nobles | det:predet |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 nobles | nmod:poss |
| 20 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 king | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 reached | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 reached | cc |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 order | case |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 order | det |
| 25 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 reached | obl |
| 26 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 reached | nsubj |
| 27 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 mountain | det |
| 29 | fatal | fatal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 mountain | amod |
| 30 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 reached | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 one | punct |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 one | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 one | cop |
| 34 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 mountain | appos |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 chain | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 chain | det |
| 37 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 chain | amod |
| 38 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 one | nmod |
| 39 | bordering | border | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 38 chain | acl |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 sea | det |
| 41 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 bordering | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | I | bier | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | me | a great procession | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location procession=Theme | ||||
| 3 | head | participle | a great procession not said here | by the king and king's nobles | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | reach | past | we | the fatal mountain | this order | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent mountain=Theme | |||
| 5 | is a | past | the fatal mountain | one | of a lofty chain | tree rules | |||
| 6 | border | gerund | a lofty chain not said here | the sea | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sea=Co-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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