The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 14
They then went to the baths, after which the prince put on the astrologer's robe and was conducted within sight of the king's palace by Marzavan, who left him there and went to consult his mother, the princess's nurse.
Who acts: roads, Marzavan · What happens: go, put, conduct, leave, consult, sight · To what, where: baths, prince, robe, Marzavan, mother, palace
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 (roads, Marzavan), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 baths | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 baths | det |
| 6 | baths | bath | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 prince | punct |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 prince | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 prince | nsubj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 prince | det |
| 11 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 12 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 prince | acl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 robe | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 astrologer | det |
| 15 | astrologer | astrologer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 robe | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 astrologer | case |
| 17 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 put | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 conducted | cc |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 conducted | aux:pass |
| 20 | conducted | conduct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 went | conj |
| 21 | within | within | ADP | _ | 22 sight | case |
| 22 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 conducted | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 palace | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 king | det |
| 25 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 palace | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 king | case |
| 27 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sight | nmod |
| 28 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 Marzavan | case |
| 29 | Marzavan | Marzavan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 conducted | obl:agent |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 left | punct |
| 31 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 left | nsubj |
| 32 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 Marzavan | acl:relcl |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 left | obj |
| 34 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 left | advmod |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 went | cc |
| 36 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 left | conj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 consult | mark |
| 38 | consult | consult | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 went | xcomp |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 mother | nmod:poss |
| 40 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 consult | obj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 nurse | punct |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 princess | det |
| 43 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 nurse | nmod:poss |
| 44 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 43 princess | case |
| 45 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 mother | conj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | roads = road | the baths | after the prince; then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bath=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | put | participle | the prince not said here | the astrologer's robe | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on robe=Destination | ||||
| 3 | conduct | past · passive | Marzavan | within sight of the king's palace | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | leave | past | Marzavan | Marzavan | there | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 5 | go | past | Marzavan not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | consult | to-infinitive | Marzavan not said here | Marzavan's mother and the princess's nurse | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Theme | ||||
| 7 | sight | the king's palace | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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