The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 1
Next morning Prince Camaralzaman and Marzavan were off betimes, attended by two grooms leading the two extra horses.
Who acts: two grooms · What happens: attend, lead · To what, where: Next morning, two extra horses
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two grooms), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morning | amod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 attended | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Camaralzaman | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Camaralzaman | Camaralzaman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 morning | appos |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Marzavan | cc |
| 6 | Marzavan | Marzavan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Camaralzaman | conj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 attended | aux:pass |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 betimes | case |
| 9 | betimes | betimes | ADV | _ | 11 attended | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 attended | punct |
| 11 | attended | attend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 grooms | case |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 grooms | nummod |
| 14 | grooms | groom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 attended | obl |
| 15 | leading | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 grooms | acl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 horses | det |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 horses | nummod |
| 18 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 horses | amod |
| 19 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 leading | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 attended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attend | past · passive | two grooms | Next morning | betimes property | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Goal | |||
| 2 | lead | gerund | two grooms not said here | the two extra horses | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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