The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 102
When they reached the garden gate they found it open, to the great indignation of the Caliph.
Who acts: pieces · What happens: reach, find · To what, where: garden gate, gate
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pieces), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 gate | det |
| 5 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gate | compound |
| 6 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 found | nsubj |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gate | acl:relcl |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 found | obj |
| 10 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 found | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 indignation | punct |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 indignation | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 indignation | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 indignation | amod |
| 15 | indignation | indignation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Caliph | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Caliph | det |
| 18 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 indignation | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | pieces = piece | the garden gate | to the great indignation of the Caliph | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent gate=Theme | |||
| 2 | find | past | pieces = piece | gate | open property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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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