The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 64

While he was gone Noureddin and the Persian wandered through the gardens and went up the white marble staircase of the pavilion as far as the locked door of the saloon.

Who acts: Ibrahim, gone Noureddin · What happens: be, wander, go up, lock · To what, where: gone Noureddin, gardens, white marble staircase

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 (Ibrahim, gone Noureddin), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	5 Noureddin	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 Noureddin	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Noureddin	cop
4	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Noureddin	amod
5	Noureddin	Noureddin	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 wandered	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Persian	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Persian	det
8	Persian	Persian	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Noureddin	conj
9	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	through	through	ADP	_	12 gardens	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 gardens	det
12	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 wandered	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 went	cc
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 wandered	conj
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 went	compound:prt
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 staircase	det
17	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 staircase	amod
18	marble	marble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 staircase	amod
19	staircase	staircase	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 went	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 pavilion	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 pavilion	det
22	pavilion	pavilion	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 staircase	nmod
23	as	as	ADV	_	24 far	advmod
24	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 door	advmod
25	as	as	ADP	_	28 door	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 door	det
27	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 door	amod
28	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 went	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 saloon	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 saloon	det
31	saloon	saloon	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 door	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 wandered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Ibrahim	gone Noureddin and the Persian			tree rules
2	wander	past	gone Noureddin and the Persian		the gardens		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through garden=Trajectory
3	go up	past	gone Noureddin and the Persian not said here	the white marble staircase of the pavilion		as the locked door of the saloon	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	lock	participle					vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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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