The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 15

Then he clapped his hands, and all the dishes were brought that they had tasted in imagination before and during the repast, slaves sang and played on various instruments.

Who acts: Barmecide, dishes, slaves · What happens: clap, bring, taste, sing, play · To what, where: hands, dishes, imagination, various instruments

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Barmecide, dishes, slaves), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 clapped	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 clapped	nsubj
3	clapped	clap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hands	nmod:poss
5	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 clapped	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 brought	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 brought	cc
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 dishes	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dishes	det
10	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 brought	nsubj:pass
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 brought	aux:pass
12	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 clapped	conj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 tasted	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 tasted	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 tasted	aux
16	tasted	taste	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 brought	advcl
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 imagination	case
18	imagination	imagination	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tasted	obl
19	before	before	ADV	_	16 tasted	advmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 repast	cc
21	during	during	ADP	_	23 repast	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 repast	det
23	repast	repast	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 before	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sang	punct
25	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 sang	nsubj
26	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 clapped	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 played	cc
28	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 sang	conj
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 instruments	case
30	various	various	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 instruments	amod
31	instruments	instrument	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 played	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 clapped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clap	past	Barmecide	Barmecide's hands		then		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme
2	bring	past · passive		all dishes				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme
3	taste	past · perfect	dishes = dish		imagination		before property	vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in imagination=Location
4	sing speech: express	past	slaves					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	play	past	slaves not said here		various instruments			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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