The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 15
Meantime the prince, according to Marzavan's instructions, advanced close to the palace gates and there proclaimed aloud:
Who acts: you, Marzavan · What happens: meantime, accord, advance, proclaim, instruct · To what, where: prince, instructions
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 (you, 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 | Meantime | meantime | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Meantime | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Meantime | punct |
| 5 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 instructions | case |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 according | fixed |
| 7 | Marzavan | Marzavan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 instructions | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Marzavan | case |
| 9 | instructions | instruction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Meantime | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 advanced | punct |
| 11 | advanced | advance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 instructions | acl |
| 12 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 advanced | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 gates | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 gates | det |
| 15 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gates | compound |
| 16 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 close | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 proclaimed | cc |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 proclaimed | advmod |
| 19 | proclaimed | proclaim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 advanced | conj |
| 20 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 19 proclaimed | advmod |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Meantime | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meantime | imperative | you not said here | the prince | accord Marzavan's instructions | tree rules | |||
| 2 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | advance | participle | Marzavan's instructions not said here | close property | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | proclaim | participle | there | aloud property | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | instruct | Marzavan | nom instruction «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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/25/15/