The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 16
After a protracted journey by land and sea the princess, still under the name and disguise of Prince Camaralzaman, arrived at the capital of the Ebony Island whose king was named Armanos.
Who acts: princess, land · What happens: protract, arrive, name, journey · To what, where: king, capital
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, land), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 journey | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 journey | det |
| 3 | protracted | protract | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 journey | amod |
| 4 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 arrived | obl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 land | case |
| 6 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 journey | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sea | cc |
| 8 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 land | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 princess | det |
| 10 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 arrived | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 name | punct |
| 12 | still | still | ADV | _ | 15 name | advmod |
| 13 | under | under | ADP | _ | 15 name | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 name | det |
| 15 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 princess | appos |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 disguise | cc |
| 17 | disguise | disguise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 name | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Prince | case |
| 19 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 disguise | nmod |
| 20 | Camaralzaman | Camaralzaman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Prince | flat |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 arrived | punct |
| 22 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 capital | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 capital | det |
| 25 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 named | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Island | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Island | det |
| 28 | Ebony | Ebony | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Island | compound |
| 29 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 capital | nmod |
| 30 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 31 king | nmod:poss |
| 31 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 named | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 named | aux:pass |
| 33 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 arrived | conj |
| 34 | Armanos | Armanos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 named | xcomp |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | protract | participle | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | arrive | past | the princess | after a protracted journey by land and sea | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | name | past · passive | king | the capital of the Ebony Island | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | journey | land and sea | nom journey «act transitive»: by=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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