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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 26

When the procession reached the palace the chief of police prostrated himself at the feet of the Sultan, and related all that he knew of the matter.

Who acts: procession, chief · What happens: reach, prostrate, know · To what, where: palace, chief, feet

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (procession, chief), 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

markdetnsubjadvcldetobjdetnsubjcasenmodobjcasedetoblcasedetnmodpunctccparataxisoblmarknsubjadvclcasedetoblpunctrootWhenSCONJtheDETprocessionNOUNreachedVERBtheDETpalaceNOUNtheDETchiefNOUNofADPpoliceNOUNprostratedVERBhimselfPRONatADPtheDETfeetNOUNofADPtheDETSultanPROPN,PUNCTandCCONJrelatedADJallDETthatSCONJhePRONknewVERBofADPtheDETmatterNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhenwhenSCONJ_4 reachedmark
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 processiondet
3processionprocessionNOUNNumber=Sing4 reachednsubj
4reachedreachVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 prostratedadvcl
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 palacedet
6palacepalaceNOUNNumber=Sing4 reachedobj
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 chiefdet
8chiefchiefNOUNNumber=Sing11 prostratednsubj
9ofofADP_10 policecase
10policepoliceNOUNNumber=Plur8 chiefnmod
11prostratedprostrateVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
12himselfhimselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes11 prostratedobj
13atatADP_15 feetcase
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 feetdet
15feetfootNOUNNumber=Plur11 prostratedobl
16ofofADP_18 Sultancase
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 Sultandet
18SultanSultanPROPNNumber=Sing15 feetnmod
19,,PUNCT_21 relatedpunct
20andandCCONJ_21 relatedcc
21relatedrelatedADJDegree=Pos11 prostratedparataxis
22allallDETPronType=Tot21 relatedobl
23thatthatSCONJ_25 knewmark
24hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 knewnsubj
25knewknowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 relatedadvcl
26ofofADP_28 mattercase
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 matterdet
28mattermatterNOUNNumber=Sing25 knewobl
29..PUNCT_11 prostratedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1reachpastthe processionthe palacevn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent palace=Theme
2prostratepastthe chief of policechiefthe feet of the Sultantree rules
3knowpastchiefof the mattervn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of matter=Stimulus

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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