The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 37
The king approved the plan, and as soon as the castle on the island could be prepared for their reception he and the prince arrived there, Schahzaman never leaving his son except for the prescribed public audiences twice a week.
Who acts: king, Schahzaman, scenery · What happens: approve, prepare, arrive, not leave, prescribe, receive · To what, where: plan, reception, son
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, Schahzaman, scenery), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 approved | nsubj |
| 3 | approved | approve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 plan | det |
| 5 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 approved | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 prepared | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 prepared | cc |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 soon | advmod |
| 9 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 prepared | advmod |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 castle | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 castle | det |
| 12 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 soon | obl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 island | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 island | det |
| 15 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 castle | nmod |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 prepared | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 prepared | aux:pass |
| 18 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 approved | parataxis |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 reception | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 reception | nmod:poss |
| 21 | reception | reception | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 prepared | obl |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 arrived | nsubj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 prince | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 prince | det |
| 25 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 he | conj |
| 26 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 reception | acl:relcl |
| 27 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 arrived | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 leaving | punct |
| 29 | Schahzaman | Schahzaman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 leaving | nsubj |
| 30 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 31 leaving | advmod |
| 31 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 prepared | advcl |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 son | nmod:poss |
| 33 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 leaving | obj |
| 34 | except | except | ADP | _ | 39 audiences | case |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 audiences | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 audiences | det |
| 37 | prescribed | prescribe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 audiences | amod |
| 38 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 audiences | amod |
| 39 | audiences | audience | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 leaving | obl |
| 40 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 31 leaving | advmod |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 week | det |
| 42 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 twice | obl:unmarked |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 approved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | approve | past | the king | the plan | vn allow-64.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | prepare | could · passive | for scenery's reception; soon property | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: for reception=Beneficiary | |||||
| 3 | arrive | past | king | scenery's reception not said here | there | tree rules | |||
| 4 | not leave | gerund | Schahzaman | king's son | except the prescribed public audiences; twice property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme | |||
| 5 | prescribe | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | receive | scenery | nom reception «communication transitive»: poss=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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