The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 62
Maimoune led him to the prince's room, and the rival beauty was placed beside him.
Who acts: Maimoune · What happens: lead, place · To what, where: Danhasch, room, rival beauty
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maimoune), 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 | Maimoune | Maimoune | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 led | nsubj |
| 2 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 led | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 room | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 prince | det |
| 6 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 room | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 prince | case |
| 8 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 led | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 placed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 placed | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 beauty | det |
| 12 | rival | rival | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 beauty | amod |
| 13 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 placed | aux:pass |
| 15 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 led | conj |
| 16 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 placed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | Maimoune | Danhasch | the prince's room | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to room=Destination | |||
| 2 | place | past · passive | the rival beauty | beside Danhasch | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme beside he=Destination |
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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