The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 29
A thousand men in cloth of gold, mounted upon richly caparisoned elephants, go before him, and as the procession moves onward the officer who guides his elephant cries aloud, `Behold the mighty monarch, the powerful and valiant Sultan of the Indies, whose palace is covered with a hundred thousand rubies, who possesses twenty thousand diamond crowns.
Who acts: thousand men, procession, officer, mighty monarch · What happens: mount, caparison, go, move, guide, cry · To what, where: elephant, mighty monarch, palace, thousand diamond crowns
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thousand men, procession, officer, mighty 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 men | det |
| 2 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 men | nummod |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 mounted | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 cloth | case |
| 5 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 men | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 gold | case |
| 7 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cloth | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mounted | punct |
| 9 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 elephants | case |
| 11 | richly | richly | ADV | _ | 12 caparisoned | advmod |
| 12 | caparisoned | caparison | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 elephants | amod |
| 13 | elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 mounted | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 mounted | parataxis |
| 16 | before | before | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 go | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 cries | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 cries | cc |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 moves | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 procession | det |
| 22 | procession | procession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 moves | nsubj |
| 23 | moves | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 cries | advcl |
| 24 | onward | onward | ADV | _ | 23 moves | advmod |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 officer | det |
| 26 | officer | officer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 cries | nsubj |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 guides | nsubj |
| 28 | guides | guide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 officer | acl:relcl |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 elephant | nmod:poss |
| 30 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 guides | obj |
| 31 | cries | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 mounted | parataxis |
| 32 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 31 cries | advmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 monarch | punct |
| 34 | ` | ` | PUNCT | _ | 38 monarch | punct |
| 35 | Behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 38 monarch | discourse |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 monarch | det |
| 37 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 monarch | amod |
| 38 | monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 cries | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 Sultan | punct |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 Sultan | det |
| 41 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 Sultan | amod |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 valiant | cc |
| 43 | valiant | valiant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 powerful | conj |
| 44 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 monarch | nmod |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 Indies | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 Indies | det |
| 47 | Indies | Indy | PROPN | Number=Plur | 44 Sultan | nmod |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 covered | punct |
| 49 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 50 palace | nmod:poss |
| 50 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 51 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 52 covered | aux:pass |
| 52 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 monarch | acl |
| 53 | with | with | ADP | _ | 57 rubies | case |
| 54 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 55 hundred | det |
| 55 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 56 thousand | compound |
| 56 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 57 rubies | nummod |
| 57 | rubies | ruby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 52 covered | obl |
| 58 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 60 possesses | punct |
| 59 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 60 possesses | nsubj |
| 60 | possesses | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 monarch | conj |
| 61 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 62 thousand | compound |
| 62 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 64 crowns | nummod |
| 63 | diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 64 crowns | compound |
| 64 | crowns | crown | NOUN | Number=Plur | 60 possesses | obj |
| 65 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | participle | a thousand men in cloth of gold | upon caparisoned elephants | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon elephant=Destination | ||||
| 2 | caparison | participle | richly property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | before Commander | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before he=Location | |||||
| 4 | move | present | the procession | onward property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | guide | present | the officer | Commander's elephant | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent elephant=Theme | ||||
| 6 | cry speech: express | present | the officer | the mighty monarch the powerful Sultan of the Indies | aloud property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 7 | cover | present · passive | palace | with thousand rubies | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with ruby=Theme | ||||
| 8 | possess | present | the mighty monarch the powerful Sultan of the Indies | thousand diamond crowns | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot crown=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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