The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 54

In the middle of it was a vast pavilion, whose superb saloon had eighty windows, each window having a lustre, lit solely when the Caliph spent the evening there.

Who acts: superb saloon, window, Caliph · What happens: be, have, lit, spend · To what, where: vast pavilion, middle, eighty windows, lustre

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 (superb saloon, window, Caliph), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 middle	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 middle	det
3	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pavilion	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 middle	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 pavilion	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 pavilion	det
8	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 pavilion	amod
9	pavilion	pavilion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
11	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	13 saloon	nmod:poss
12	superb	superb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 saloon	amod
13	saloon	saloon	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 pavilion	conj
15	eighty	eighty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 windows	nummod
16	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 had	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 window	punct
18	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	19 window	det
19	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pavilion	appos
20	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 window	acl
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 lustre	det
22	lustre	lustre	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 having	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 lit	punct
24	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 pavilion	parataxis
25	solely	solely	ADV	_	24 lit	advmod
26	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 spent	advmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Caliph	det
28	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 spent	nsubj
29	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 lit	advcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 evening	det
31	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 spent	obj
32	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 spent	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 pavilion	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		a vast pavilion	the middle of middle			tree rules
2	have	past	superb saloon	eighty windows				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Patient
3	have	gerund	each window not said here	a lustre				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lustre=Patient
4	lit	participle					solely property	tree rules
5	spend	past	the Caliph		there	evening		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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