The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 109

Knocking at the door of the first and chief, the slave who opened it left him to wait in a hall while he announced his visit to his master. "

Who acts: slave, One · What happens: knock, open, leave, wait, announce, visit · To what, where: door, One, hall, visit, master

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (slave, One), 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	Knocking	knock	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 left	advcl
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 door	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 door	det
4	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Knocking	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 first	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 first	det
7	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 door	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 chief	cc
9	chief	chief	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 first	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Knocking	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 slave	det
12	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 left	nsubj
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 opened	nsubj
14	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 slave	acl:relcl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 opened	obj
16	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 left	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 wait	mark
19	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 left	xcomp
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 hall	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 hall	det
22	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wait	obl
23	while	while	SCONJ	_	25 announced	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 announced	nsubj
25	announced	announce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 wait	advcl
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 visit	nmod:poss
27	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 announced	obj
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 master	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 master	nmod:poss
30	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 announced	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 left	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	knock	gerund	the slave not said here				at the door of the first	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient
2	open	past	the slave	door				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
3	leave	past	the slave	One				tree rules
4	wait	to-infinitive	One not said here			a hall		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hall=Location
5	announce speech: other	past	One	One's visit	One's master			vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent visit=Theme to master=Recipient
6	visit		One					nom visit «act 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.

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