The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 25
Covered from head to foot with mire and streaming with blood he rose, and leaning on two of his slaves went straight to the palace, where he demanded an audience of the king, to whom he related what had taken place in these words:
Who acts: Noureddin, leaning · What happens: cover, stream, rise, lean, go, demand · To what, where: head, blood, two, palace, audience, place
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 (Noureddin, leaning), 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 | Covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 3 head | case |
| 3 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Covered | obl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 foot | case |
| 5 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Covered | obl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 mire | case |
| 7 | mire | mire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 foot | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 streaming | cc |
| 9 | streaming | stream | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 mire | conj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 blood | case |
| 11 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 streaming | obl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 rose | nsubj |
| 13 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 blood | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 went | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 went | cc |
| 16 | leaning | lean | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 went | csubj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 two | case |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 leaning | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 slaves | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 slaves | nmod:poss |
| 21 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 leaning | obl |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Covered | conj |
| 23 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 26 palace | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 palace | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 palace | det |
| 26 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 went | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 demanded | punct |
| 28 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 30 demanded | advmod |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 demanded | nsubj |
| 30 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 palace | acl:relcl |
| 31 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 audience | det |
| 32 | audience | audience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 demanded | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 king | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 king | det |
| 35 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 audience | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 whom | punct |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 whom | case |
| 38 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 went | obl |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 related | nsubj |
| 40 | related | relate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 whom | acl:relcl |
| 41 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 43 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 42 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 taken | aux |
| 43 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 related | xcomp |
| 44 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 taken | obj |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 words | case |
| 46 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 47 words | det |
| 47 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 place | nmod |
| 48 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Covered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | participle | head | to foot with mire | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stream | gerund | with blood | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with blood=Theme | |||||
| 3 | rise | past | Noureddin | blood not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location blood=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lean | gerund | two | of Noureddin's slaves | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on two=Location | ||||
| 5 | go | past | leaning | the palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location to whom=Destination | ||||
| 6 | demand speech: request | past | Noureddin | a audience of the king | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme audience=Precondition | ||||
| 7 | relate | past | Noureddin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 8 | take | past · perfect · passive | place | this words | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme place=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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