The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 56
Here, when I had disclosed my errand, I was well received, and brought into the presence of the king, who greeted me with joy.
Who acts: I, king · What happens: disclose, receive, bring, greet · To what, where: errand, I, presence, me
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 (I, king), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 disclosed | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 disclosed | advmod |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 disclosed | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 disclosed | aux |
| 6 | disclosed | disclose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 errand | nmod:poss |
| 8 | errand | errand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 disclosed | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 received | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 received | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 received | aux:pass |
| 12 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 received | advmod |
| 13 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 disclosed | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 brought | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 brought | cc |
| 16 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 disclosed | conj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 presence | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 presence | det |
| 19 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 brought | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 king | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 king | det |
| 22 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 presence | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 greeted | punct |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 greeted | nsubj |
| 25 | greeted | greet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 king | acl:relcl |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 greeted | obj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 joy | case |
| 28 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 greeted | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 disclosed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disclose | past · perfect | I | my errand | here | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot errand=Topic | |||
| 2 | receive | past · passive | I | well property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bring | past | I not said here | the presence of the king | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into presence=Destination | ||||
| 4 | greet speech: greet | past | the king | me | with joy | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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