The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 71

In this order we marched into the city of Serendib, where the natives presented me to their king, whom I saluted in the Indian fashion, prostrating myself at his feet and kissing the ground; but the monarch bade me rise and sit beside him, asking first what was my name.

Who acts: we, natives, I, monarch · What happens: march, present, salute, prostrate, kiss, bade · To what, where: order, me, king, Indian fashion, myself, feet · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, natives, I, monarch), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 order	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 order	det
3	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 marched	obl
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 marched	nsubj
5	marched	march	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 city	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 city	det
8	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 marched	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Serendib	case
10	Serendib	Serendib	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 city	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 presented	punct
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 presented	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 natives	det
14	natives	native	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 presented	nsubj
15	presented	present	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 marched	conj
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 presented	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 king	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 king	nmod:poss
19	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 presented	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 saluted	punct
21	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 saluted	obj
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 saluted	nsubj
23	saluted	salute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 king	acl:relcl
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 fashion	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 fashion	det
26	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 fashion	amod
27	fashion	fashion	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 saluted	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 prostrating	punct
29	prostrating	prostrate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 saluted	advcl
30	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 prostrating	obj
31	at	at	ADP	_	33 feet	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 feet	nmod:poss
33	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 prostrating	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 kissing	cc
35	kissing	kiss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 prostrating	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 ground	det
37	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 kissing	obj
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 bade	punct
39	but	but	CCONJ	_	42 bade	cc
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 monarch	det
41	monarch	monarch	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 bade	nsubj
42	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 marched	conj
43	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 bade	obj
44	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 bade	xcomp
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 sit	cc
46	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 rise	conj
47	beside	beside	ADP	_	48 him	case
48	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 sit	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 asking	punct
50	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	46 sit	advcl
51	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	52 what	advmod
52	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	55 name	nsubj
53	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 name	cop
54	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 name	nmod:poss
55	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 asking	ccomp
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 marched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	march	past	we			this order	into the city of Serendib result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into city=Result
2	present	past	the natives	me	eyes's king			vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Theme to king=Recipient
3	salute	past	I	eyes's king		the Indian fashion		vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Topic
4	prostrate	gerund	I not said here	myself		king's feet		tree rules
5	kiss	gerund	I not said here	the ground				vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ground=Co-Agent
6	bade	past	the monarch	me				tree rules
7	rise	infinitive	the monarch not said here					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	sit	infinitive	the monarch not said here				beside monarch	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside he=Location
9	ask speech: ask	gerund	the monarch not said here					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	is a	past		my name				tree rules

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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