The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 49
At the foot of the grand-vizir's staircase I shall dismount, and while my servants stand in a row to right and left I shall ascend the stairs, at the head of which the grand-vizir will be waiting to receive me.
Who acts: I, servants, grand vizir · What happens: dismount, stand, ascend, wait, receive · To what, where: foot, row, stairs, head, me
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 (I, servants, grand vizir), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg128:1680): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 foot | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 foot | det |
| 3 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dismount | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 staircase | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 vizir | det |
| 6 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 vizir | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 grand | punct |
| 8 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 staircase | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 vizir | case |
| 10 | staircase | staircase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 foot | nmod |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 dismount | nsubj |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 dismount | aux |
| 13 | dismount | dismount | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 ascend | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 ascend | cc |
| 16 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 19 stand | mark |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 servants | nmod:poss |
| 18 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 stand | nsubj |
| 19 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 ascend | advcl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 row | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 row | det |
| 22 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stand | obl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 right | case |
| 24 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stand | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 left | cc |
| 26 | left | left | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 right | conj |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 ascend | nsubj |
| 28 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 ascend | aux |
| 29 | ascend | ascend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 dismount | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 stairs | det |
| 31 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 ascend | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 waiting | punct |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 head | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 head | det |
| 35 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 waiting | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 which | case |
| 37 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 head | nmod |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 vizir | det |
| 39 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 vizir | amod |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 grand | punct |
| 41 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 waiting | nsubj |
| 42 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 waiting | aux |
| 43 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 44 waiting | aux |
| 44 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 stairs | acl:relcl |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 receive | mark |
| 46 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 waiting | xcomp |
| 47 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 46 receive | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 dismount | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dismount | shall | I | the foot of the grand vizir's staircase | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | stand | present | my servants | a row | to right and left | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in row=Location | |||
| 3 | ascend | shall | I | the stairs | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stair=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | wait | future · progressive | the grand vizir | the head | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | receive | to-infinitive | the grand vizir not said here | me | vn obtain-13.5.2 «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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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