The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 6
They mounted their second horses, and Marzavan led one of the grooms' horses by the bridle.
Who acts: horses, Marzavan · What happens: mount, lead · To what, where: second horses, one
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 (horses, 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 | 2 mounted | nsubj |
| 2 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 horses | nmod:poss |
| 4 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 horses | amod |
| 5 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 mounted | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 led | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 led | cc |
| 8 | Marzavan | Marzavan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 led | nsubj |
| 9 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 mounted | conj |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 led | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 horses | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 grooms | det |
| 13 | grooms | groom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 horses | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 13 grooms | case |
| 15 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 one | nmod |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 bridle | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bridle | det |
| 18 | bridle | bridle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 led | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | past | horses = horse | horses's second horses | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 2 | lead | past | Marzavan | one of the grooms's horses | by the bridle | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent one=Theme by bridle=Destination |
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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