The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 17
No sooner did the king hear that the ship which was just in port had on board the son of his old friend and ally than he hurried to meet the supposed prince, and had him and his retinue brought to the palace, where they were lodged and entertained sumptuously.
Who acts: king, ship, retinue · What happens: hear, be, have, hurry, meet, suppose · To what, where: port, supposed prince, king, palace, princess · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (king, ship, retinue), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 sooner | det |
| 2 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 hear | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hear | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hear | nsubj |
| 6 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 had | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ship | det |
| 9 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | nsubj |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 port | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 port | cop |
| 12 | just | just | ADV | _ | 14 port | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 port | case |
| 14 | port | port | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ship | acl:relcl |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hear | ccomp |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 son | case |
| 17 | board | board | ADP | _ | 19 son | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 son | det |
| 19 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 friend | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 friend | nmod:poss |
| 22 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 friend | amod |
| 23 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 son | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 hurried | cc |
| 25 | ally | ally | ADV | _ | 28 hurried | advmod |
| 26 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 28 hurried | mark |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 hurried | nsubj |
| 28 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 had | conj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 meet | mark |
| 30 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 hurried | xcomp |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 prince | det |
| 32 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 prince | amod |
| 33 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 meet | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 had | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 had | cc |
| 36 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hear | parataxis |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 had | obj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 brought | cc |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 retinue | nmod:poss |
| 40 | retinue | retinue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 brought | nsubj |
| 41 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 had | conj |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 palace | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 palace | det |
| 44 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 brought | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 lodged | punct |
| 46 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 49 lodged | advmod |
| 47 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 lodged | nsubj |
| 48 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 lodged | aux:pass |
| 49 | lodged | lodge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 44 palace | acl:relcl |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 entertained | cc |
| 51 | entertained | entertained | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 lodged | conj |
| 52 | sumptuously | sumptuously | ADV | _ | 51 entertained | advmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · do-support | the king | soon property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the ship | port | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | past | the ship | on the son of king's old friend | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | hurry | past | king | ally property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | meet | to-infinitive | king not said here | the supposed prince | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Co-Agent | ||||
| 6 | suppose | participle | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | have | past | king | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||||
| 8 | bring | past | king's retinue | the palace | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to palace=Destination | ||||
| 9 | lodge | past · passive | princess | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: subject=Location |
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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