The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 90
When all was ready the merchant was brought from prison and led to the foot of the gallows.
Who acts: all · What happens: be, bring, lead · To what, where: ready merchant, prison
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (all), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 ready | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 ready | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ready | cop |
| 4 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 merchant | amod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 merchant | det |
| 6 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 brought | aux:pass |
| 8 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 prison | case |
| 10 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brought | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 led | cc |
| 12 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 brought | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 foot | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 foot | det |
| 15 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 led | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 gallows | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 gallows | det |
| 18 | gallows | gallows | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 foot | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | all | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bring | past · passive | the ready merchant | prison | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from prison=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | lead | past | to the foot of the gallows | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to foot=Patient |
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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