The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 8

Now there was a deep well in the tower in which Prince Camaralzaman was imprisoned, and this well was a favourite resort of the fairy Maimoune, daughter of Damriat, chief of a legion of genii.

Who acts: deep well, this · What happens: be, imprison · To what, where: Camaralzaman, tower, favourite resort

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 (deep well, this), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 was	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 well	det
5	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 well	amod
6	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 was	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 tower	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tower	det
9	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 well	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 which	case
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 imprisoned	obl
12	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Camaralzaman	nmod:desc
13	Camaralzaman	Camaralzaman	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 imprisoned	nsubj:pass
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 imprisoned	aux:pass
15	imprisoned	imprison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 tower	acl:relcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 resort	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 resort	cc
18	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 resort	nsubj
19	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 resort	advmod
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 resort	cop
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 resort	det
22	favourite	favourite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 resort	amod
23	resort	resort	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 was	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 fairy	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 fairy	det
26	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 resort	nmod
27	Maimoune	Maimoune	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 fairy	appos
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 daughter	punct
29	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fairy	conj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 Damriat	case
31	Damriat	Damriat	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 daughter	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 chief	punct
33	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fairy	conj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 legion	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 legion	det
36	legion	legion	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 chief	nmod
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 genii	case
38	genii	genii	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 legion	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a deep well in the tower		there	now		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	imprison	past · passive		Camaralzaman Prince	the tower			vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in which=Destination
3	is a	past	this	a favourite resort			of the fairy and daughter of Damriat and chief of a legion of genii; well property	tree rules

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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