The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 47
Meanwhile Noureddin and the fair Persian had safely reached Bagdad.
What happens: reach · To what, where: Noureddin
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: 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 9 reached | advmod |
| 2 | Noureddin | Noureddin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 reached | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Persian | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Persian | det |
| 5 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Persian | amod |
| 6 | Persian | Persian | PROPN | _ | 2 Noureddin | conj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 reached | aux |
| 8 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 9 reached | advmod |
| 9 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | Bagdad | Bagdad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 reached | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past · perfect · passive | Noureddin and the fair Persian | meanwhile, safely property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary bagdad=Theme |
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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