The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 31
At night the whole town was filled with rejoicings, and with much pomp the Princess Haiatelnefous (this was the name of the king's daughter) was conducted to the palace of the Princess Badoura.
Who acts: this · What happens: fill, be, conduct · To what, where: whole town, name, Princess Haiatelnefous, palace
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 (this), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 night | case |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 filled | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 town | det |
| 4 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 town | amod |
| 5 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 filled | aux:pass |
| 7 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 rejoicings | case |
| 9 | rejoicings | rejoicing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 filled | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 conducted | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 conducted | cc |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 pomp | case |
| 13 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 pomp | amod |
| 14 | pomp | pomp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 conducted | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Haiatelnefous | det |
| 16 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Haiatelnefous | compound |
| 17 | Haiatelnefous | Haiatelnefous | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 conducted | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 22 name | punct |
| 19 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 name | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 name | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 name | det |
| 22 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Haiatelnefous | appos |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 daughter | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 king | det |
| 25 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 king | case |
| 27 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 name | nmod |
| 28 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 22 name | punct |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 conducted | aux:pass |
| 30 | conducted | conduct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 filled | conj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 palace | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 palace | det |
| 33 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 conducted | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 Badoura | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Badoura | det |
| 36 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Badoura | compound |
| 37 | Badoura | Badoura | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 palace | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past · passive | the whole town | night | with rejoicings | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with rejoicing=Instrument | |||
| 2 | is a | past | this | the name | of the king's daughter | tree rules | |||
| 3 | conduct | past · passive | the Princess Haiatelnefous | the palace of the Princess Badoura | with much pomp | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to palace=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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