The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 60
So saying the doorkeeper led the way into the Caliph's garden, the beauties of which filled them with wonder and amazement.
Who acts: saying, beauties · What happens: say, lead, fill · To what, where: doorkeeper, way, garden · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (saying, beauties), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 led | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 led | csubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 doorkeeper | det |
| 4 | doorkeeper | doorkeeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saying | obj |
| 5 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 way | det |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 led | obj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 garden | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Caliph | det |
| 10 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 garden | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Caliph | case |
| 12 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 led | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 beauties | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 beauties | det |
| 15 | beauties | beauty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 led | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 filled | nsubj |
| 18 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 beauties | acl:relcl |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 filled | obj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 wonder | case |
| 21 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 filled | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 amazement | cc |
| 23 | amazement | amazement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wonder | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | the doorkeeper | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent doorkeeper=Topic | |||||
| 2 | lead | past | saying | the way | the Caliph's garden | the beauties obl | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent way=Theme into garden=Destination | ||
| 3 | fill | past | the beauties | doorkeeper | with wonder and amazement | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with wonder=Instrument |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/29/60/